"This is one of the pages on the Beverley Minster website, the one with the photo. The website is very in-depth. http://beverleyminster.org.uk/visit-us-2/medieval-minstrel-carvings/
The reconstruction uses two separately turned pipes, glued together.…"

"Congratulation for your work.
Could you precise the identification of the sculpture?
It seems to me that the two pipes are separated. Why did you choose to make a single solid double pipe?"

"Well, I am still not quite sure how to post things.
Anyway, this is a reconstruction of the double pipe in the illustration. Plays in G, there is an octave on the G, plus a note on each side. That is, the total range is F-a. Mostly chromatic by…"

"Does 250-100 ap. J.C. mean 250-1000 of our era? In which case it's about right. There are quite a number of double flutes of pottery from the area of that age, as well as later ones. The later ones tend to be more decorated. 
Musically speaking,…"

"I agree with Olivier. What is the basis of the XVth c. attribution?"

"I'm going to make one, too.. Thanks for the vid."

"I think it makes sense. The four tubes are divided in two equal sets. On the right the two tubes have fingerholes only for the lower hand. They can easily be played by the same fingers, covering two fingerholes each, in the manner of for example the…"

"I can read Russian. According to a site, looks like it's connected to the Novgorod archaeological excavations in some way, http://behistory.ru/article/32/ , there have been altogether 11 finds so far. 5 of them being remains of the bodies of gusli,…"

"That's how it should be done.
Jean-Luc Matte a dit :
For once we have an old instrument and not an iconography, it is possible to re-enactments that are other things pure speculation as what we can do from a picture or sculpture .
However,…"

"I figured that one out. If you read the English entries without going into translate mode, they come up as written. If you translate the whole page, it "translates" the English as well, and the end result is, well, not quite right..."

"I don't understand why my preceding post came up as it is. I don't remember using any "gold" or "golden", neither using capital letters where not needed. Is the text processed by an Iphone when quoted in reply? ;-)"

"This is all true. The trick is in the availability or otherwise of the overblown registers. (at least overblown in tune). Bird bones are reasonably straight-bored, and long, so overblowing produces notes very well in tune with each other. Sheep,…"

"Same principle, but the note progression is tone-tone-semitone, like in most tabor pipes. (The galoubet is tone-tone-tone) I really don't know what the originals were tuned to, they could have been any of the possibilities. (There are the…"

"Est-ce le même principe que le "galoubets", mais avec un perce naturelle ?"

"Any tube, natural or not, along with some kind of tone generator, fipple or reed, can produce sound.Change the length of the tube with tone holes and you've got a music instrument. :-)
And as it was a lot easier to use natural than drilled through…"