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Rifat has built reed flutes for more than 20 years.

By his count, he's made more than 5,000, sold all over the world.

This is good ney because it has nine joints.

One, two, three, four.

Okay.

To find it like this, you can look, for example, 1,000 of them.

Only one of them will be ney.

One in 1,000 will be ney?

Wow!

Turkish ney has this mouthpiece.

That's beautiful.

Also inside is empty, till here.

One horn, only two or three.

Or one.

One horn?

Really?

Wow!

It's got a crown now.

Now, we will find the holes.

So, every reed that you're working with is a different length.

Yes.

So, the keys are going to be in different places, so you have to calculate for each, every time.

Yes, because all of them is unique.

Somehow it's very cool.

I'm watching a ney being born.

We will check the tuning.

It must be C.

♪♪ Tune is okay.

Beautiful.

So it's done.

Its yours.

Really?

Wow!

Thank you!

This is so cool, now I just have to learn how to play it.

[laughs] ♪♪