Membrane Flute Head

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This is an adjustable membrane-driven flutehead that converts any pipe-like object into a resonating flute. It works by letting air through an outer channel of the flutehead by blowing into the mouth piece. The air then has to travel by the membrane to access the inner tube which connects to the tube-piece you have chosen. The sound will vary in pitch, timbre and volume depending on the membrane material used and dimensions of the tube. The membrane could be any relativelt thin filmed material cut to a size that covers the opening of the head, with to cocentric tube sections. A thicker or stiffer membrane will tend to sound stiffer, more like a clarinet or saxophone reed. Whereas a looser thinner membrane could resemble more of a flapping sound. ***Printing and assembly: ((The thingiverse Customizer might not work correctly. )) There is an openscad file included which requires you to download openscad (https://openscad.org/) where you can freely adjust the flutehead according to the dimensions of your pipe. The most important setting/parameters being "innerdiameter" which refers to the outer diameter of your pipe-like object the flutehead will be mounted on. "membraneringclearance" refers to the distance between the flutehead body and the ring used to fasten and adjust the tension of the membrane. You can also adjust the height of the head, as well as the clearance between the inner and outer pipes within the flutehead to calibrate airflow. This design was inspired by Nicolas Bras with the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7J4_bneZo&t=156s He got a load of cool stuff so feel free to check him out if interested!