#also idk how brittel horn is and whether one can even drill into it

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@slingsandarrowroot :A gemsbok cornetto would be amazing! I have a cornetto laying around that I could measure the fingerholes from, and you could probably scale from that.?

thanks for the offer. but I think the first step would be to source an ethical and cleaned gemsbok horn and actually look at it properly. because even if we scale the cornetto measurements to where it's the same length as the horn, my gut feeling is the horn has a wider bore (or a least a wider flare) which will affect the fingerholes' spacing and size too

I know there's a formula for calculating flute/recorder fingerholes, so there must be one for conical bore instruments too ? in Robinson's Amateur Wind Instrument Maker he does provide dimensions for cornetti (picture below), but doesn't give the formula... I may have to work through the bibliography and see what I can find

and btw, what cornetto do you have ? I've been considering one of Jeremy West's resin ones

#cornetto #cornett #zink #shofar #horn #instruments #music #also idk how brittel horn is and whether one can even drill into it #might have to carve and sand the holes manually or with a dremel idk ?