Posts by Category: Resources

Kassa Academy

Care for Your Flute

Resources, Kassa-Academy Sep 1

Discover essential care tips for your Kassa Flute Co. Fula flute. Learn how to properly store, handle, and repair your instrument to ensure it lasts a lifetime.

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Kassa Academy

Notes and Scales

Resources, Kassa-Academy Sep 23 2019

Learn the basic scales and finger positions of the Fula flute in four keys, with diagrams and downloadable PDF.

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Fulani Flute Listening Resources

Resources Aug 1 2022

Whether you’re looking for inspiration to get you going on your Fulani flute journey, or just wanting to broaden your music playlist with some (other) worldly sounds, this is the playlist for you!

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Western vs Equidistant scales

Fula flute demonstration

Resources Jan 7 2021

What is the difference between a “Western-tuned flute” and a “traditional flute? At the Kassa Flute Co, all of our custom flutes are available in either a “Western” scale or a “traditional/equidistant” scale. As you might expect, the Western scale is the same scale used on instruments like guitar, piano, bass, etc. The traditional scale is similar, but instead of using a series of whole and half steps, it uses a seven-note scale in which all notes are equally spaced. This results in the intervals being approximately 3/4 of a step. (For a more technical explanation, please see this blog post.) But just how different are these two scales? Today, I’m going to answer that question with side-by-side audio examples of each type of flute. Listen to the short clip below to hear the difference so you can decide on your next flute!

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Frequencies & Wavelengths of Musical Notes

Reference Chart

Resources, Reference-Charts Mar 17 2015

Instrument builders and technicians often need to do calculations that require knowing the frequency and/or wavelength of certain notes. The following table shows the frequencies of all the notes of a standard piano, to a thousandth of a hertz. I generated this table using a script I wrote in PHP. I’ve also published the underlying PHP array as a Gist on GitHub, that is freely available for use in your own website or project. Get it here.

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PHP Array of Musical Frequencies

Musical Notes to Frequency Table

Resources, Reference-Charts Mar 16 2015

Recently, I came across the need to reference a chart of musical notes and their frequencies, for the purpose of calculating the wavelengths of certain notes, and realized there wasn’t a great tool out there to do this automatically. So, I created a multi-dimensional PHP array so that I could access this data, loop through it, and make whatever calculations I needed to. Below is the resulting Gist, and it is available to use freely in your own projects. I used this PHP array to generate a handy reference table of musical frequencies and wavelengths, available here. More info about the topic of Musical Frequencies at this Wikipedia entry.

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