StarTrekker wrote:
I play the Ressikan flute. It's basically a glorified penny whistle that originated on Star Trek; The Next Generation. Captain Picard got his from a thousand year-old planet called Katan, in a city called Ressik (hence the instrument's name) that he visited in his mind (the episode is more complicated than that, but too much so to go into detail. If you want to watch it, the episode is called "The Inner Light"). I obviously did not get mine from Katan... let's just say ebay is a wonderful thing. I don't practise as much as I'd like, but I'm not bad at the songs I know. This is one area where Asperger's comes in handy; I have an excellent auditory memory and can teach myself to play them by ear. It's tricky to get above a high D, as the instrument is smaller than a piccolo and gets painfully shrill when played too high, but I've found it very easy to learn, and I enjoy it far more than I ever did my trumpet when I was in middle school!
I remember the episode - I've seen all episodes of all the Star Trek series, and that one is one of my favorite TNG episodes. I had no idea people made replicas! Have you learned the tune from the episode, that Picard plays?