u/Sufficient_Waltz5958

Hello ! I have started trying Carnatic flute since about a month ago. However I am facing issues when playing the swaram since Madhya Pa and onwards.

Specifically, whenever I try to play them, I just drop down to Mandra Sthayi. The freq I could measure was proper 440Hz (it is a D scale flute, the manufacturer had mentioned A4 being tuned to 440Hz).

Sometimes, I can observe some freq at ~880Hz matching the 440 one but the sound is very unpleasant to hear and not at all like how it is supposed to be...

I am trying to keep my lip hole shape to be as minimum as possible but the best till now was to have both tones present equally....which still sounds very unlike a normal Pa.