Reinventing woodwind instuments (WHY2025)

Experimental archeology to understand the development of woodwind instruments. What I learned about woodwind instruments by using a spoon drill to make a bore and a whip lathe to reinvent medieval woodturning. I will discuss cylindrical and conical bores, why they are different in a musical sense and why the technology of the times favours one over the other. I will also link some peculiar instruments to the medieval education system of the guilds. The famous leather archeologist Olaf Goubitz once said "You can only understand a historical shoe after you have made it". After following a hobby course in instrument building and a year working as a medieval woodworker in the historical theme park Archeon, I wanted to go back to the roots and build instruments with the tools of the time. I basically want to become a medieval instrument builder's apprentice, even tough all masters are gone for centuries. With this talk I want to share what I have learned so far. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/V3ANNV/