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| | Union Band Club - Luqa (Malta) |
 | | The flute’s contribution to the music is an important one. | | | The flute music varies from fillers in melodies to playing nice mellow melodies often depicting calmness, freshness and delicateness. | | | In the 1700’s the side blown flute came into the musical scene. |
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http://www.unionbandmalta.org/FLUTE.htm
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| | Piccolo and Eb Flute |
| | (also referred to as petite flûte, ottavino, flauto piccolo, and kleine flöte) is the smallest and highest member of the flute family, sounding one octave higher than the concert flute. | | | Like the piccolo, the Eb flute has been less acoustically developed than the C flute so the flutist will have to listen carefully for intonation, especially if playing on one of the older existing instruments. | | | However, due to the popularity of flute choirs, one U.S. manufacturer (Emerson) began to make them again in 1991, as there are more and more pieces of flute choir music that require the instrument. |
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http://members.glis.net/kjt/tealflutestudio/PiccoloEbTenor.html
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| | This representative song of the Baul people is sung by Chandana Majumdar, granddaughter of a well-known Baul singer from Bengal, accompanied by a two-stringed lute (dotara), a single-stringed lute (ektara), a plucked string drone (gopiyantra), bamboo flute, violin, double-headed drum (khol), and tabla. | | | The main instrument of Japanese chamber music is the koto (13-string long zither) and is typically accompanied by the shakuhachi flute and the shamisen (3-stringed plucked lute). | | | This excerpt demonstrates the Japanese aesthetic of silence (ma) and the flexibility of rhythm that is controlled in part by the vocal calls of the drummers (kakegoe). |
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http://stripe.colorado.edu/~keister/CD2.html
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| | FAQ - Fujara flute playing technique |
| | Scatter is a high-intensity ornament particular to the fujara overtone flute that is often used at the beginning of songs. | | | Woosh An ornament added onto the end of some notes in a song. | | | Moreover, every Fujara overtone fipple flute is by its rich spectrum of overtones naturaly tuned to itself so its harmonic scale feels very natural too. |
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http://www.fujara.sk/faq/playing_technique.htm
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| | Lilting metamorphosis - Deccan Herald |
| | For instance, long flutes are called Bansuri and are performed in North India as a solo instrument in classical music concerts. | | | The length of flutes (eight inches to two feet) seems to have evolved to suit the nature of music in the different regions. | | | However, it appears that the flute has only recently, been used in classical music. |
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july112004/ac2.asp
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| | Slovakian Musical Instruments |
| | Solo fipple flute or solo violin with bagpipe or dulcimer playing the accompaniment is another favorite combination. | | | Folk fipple flutes are fairly popular in Slovakian folk music circles. | | | Ensembles commonly found in Slovakian folk music include a string ensemble of two violins and viola, bass, dulcimer, and sometimes a clarinet or trumpet. |
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http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/instruments/slovakian.html
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| | Flutes |
| | It is a simple, dual-chamber flute, with one chamber being a drone, which creates a hauntingly beautiful sound. | | | However, I mainly use them to imitate Irish flutes in Celtic music, the Quena flute in South American Indian music and the Persian Ney flute in Middle Eastern Music. | | | The Dvoyanka (right side of photo) is another wind instrument originating in Armenia. |
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http://www.toddgreen.com/flutes.html
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| | Transverse Flutes: An Overview |
| | One of the most ancient and widespread of musical instruments is the flute. | | | Many older wooden flutes not suitable for Irish music- and as such available at a relatively bargain price- are ideal for Cuban music, such as the numerous German small tone-hole flutes. | | | One other area of music that still favors the wooden simple system flute is Cuban music, as the preferred type is a wooden Classical flute from the French tradition. |
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http://larkinthemorning.com/article.asp?AI=39
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| | World of Flutes |
| | The flute is the oldest melody instrument made by man. | | | They are still relatively inexpensive and quite easy to play. | | | They are, according to size from largest to smallest: |
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http://www.svsu.edu/flutee/WorldOfFlutes.html
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| | Article from The Flutesmith Newsletter |
| | These pieces are both strong musical compositions that happen to use the wider palate of flute sonorities we've come to expect from contemporary compositions. | | | Patti Monson premiered One Voice and her recording of the piece will be released later this year. | | | It was the result of time spent not practicing what I was supposed to." Her inspirations include the haunting music of the African pygmies and Japanese gagaku court orchestra. |
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http://www.enewsbuilder.net/eletra/mod_print_view.cfm?this_id=121437&u=jlsmithco&issue_id=000026195
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| | Chinese Music Society of North America |
| | It is a surviving classic in the style of the Gujiao Hengchuiqu, ensemble music led by the flute, of the 8th century. | | | Special concerts are highlighted with the enormously popular informance on the musical, cultural, and historical background of the program by Dr. Shen during the concert. | | | The Orchestral repertoire performed originates from a large number of regions in China, and the pieces for each thematic concert are hand-picked by Dr. Shen Sin-yan. |
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http://www.chinesemusic.net/concert_lecture_info.asp
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| | Native American Flutes and Music |
| | The Ancestral Pueblo or "Anasazi" flute, which is currently being reproduced by Michael Graham Allen. | | | You and also listen to sample of all my recordings and other Native American flutes by going to the Music Page at www.scottaugust.com. | | | Listen To a sample of the Anasazi flute from the song |
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http://cedarmesa.blogspot.com
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| | shakuhachi -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Japanese musician whose mastery of the wooden flute known as the shakuhachi was such that he was named a “living national treasure” in Japan; part of one of his recordings was included in a selection of music sent into space on NASA's Voyager 2 (b. | | | 20, 1996, Tokyo), achieved worldwide renown for works that combined the tradition of Western classical music and the sounds of traditional Eastern instruments, especially the biwa (a short-necked lute) and the shakuhachi (a bamboo flute), in addition to serial music and musique concrète. | | | Koto teachers and composers also flourished; and biwa music began to return along with... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067094?tocId=9067094
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| | China reviews / Fan Li-bin & Zhang Yi-cheng / Wang Lien / Luo Shou-Cheng |
| | Ode To Time presents the devotional aspect of Chinese song played with guqin (7-string zither) and xiao (end-blown flute) in a recital of traditional aesthetics and modern melodies. | | | Shou-Cheng has created an animated recording richer in melodies and faster in tempo than either of the two preceding Solar sessions discussed. | | | The second of the two installments in the Solar Music Series by these two accomplished performers, Moon on Guan Mountain, illustrates Li-bin's more secular but no less tender concerns. |
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http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/china-solar.shtml
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| | World Music Central - S |
| | It is played solo or in ensembles, and has historically been a tool of music-making for shepherds in Armenia. | | | It's high overtone singing that sounds like a flute. | | | Sarangi — the most common bowed instrument in North Indian classical music. |
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http://worldmusiccentral.org/staticpages/index.php/instruments_s.htm
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| | Index of Koten Pieces |
| | At the end of the Edo Period musicians of the Kinko school began to participate in the ensemble of Koto music, taking the place of the Kokyu, together with the Koto and Shamisen. | | | In spite of its simple construction and specific nature of music, the instrument often charms western music lovers. | | | The musical form of solo pieces (Honkyoku) does not show fixed forms. |
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http://www.komuso.com/pieces
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| | History of the Shakuhachi |
| | From this period until as late as the 12th century it was used in gagaku (court music). | | | This method of construction greatly improved the acoustic properties of the flute as well as making it a suitable means for self-defense while on solitary pilgrimages. | | | Little is known of the music that was played on the shakuhachi at this time, although there are some flutes from this period preserved at Shoso-In in Nara, Japan. |
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http://www.emptybell.org/shakhist.html
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| | Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection: Titles: 13 |
| | DCM 1304: Allen R. Jollie / Flute in C | | | DCM 1257: Beukers / Recorder in High D (Sixth Flute) | | | DCM 1297: Anonymous / Ohe Hano Ihu (Nose Flute) |
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http://international.loc.gov/ammem/dcmhtml/dcmTitles13.html
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| | Andrew MacGregor: Four Shakuhachi Meditations |
| | At the end of this tour we will be producing a CD of the music we present at these concerts. | | | Later in the year I hope to travel to Holland to carry out a series of concerts with guitarist Marion Schaap, and to make the CD ‘Music for Guitar and Shakuhachi — Album Two’. | | | Andrew MacGregor’s first contact with the shakuhachi, or Japanese end-blown bamboo flute came in the 70s via a rock-and-roll recording by Leon Russel, and a decade on began studying the instrument under the guidance of Grand Master Riley Lee. |
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http://www.users.bigpond.com/apertout/MacGregor.htm
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| | Woodwind Central - Flute Info |
| | From medieval times two methods of producing sound were used: (a) blowing across a round mouth-hole as on the panpipes or transverse (side-blown) flute; (b) blowing into a whistle mouthpiece (end-blown) as on the recorder or flageolet. | | | (a) Alto flute - The flute in G, transposing instrument notated a 4th above actual sound. | | | Small flute pitched octave higher than concert flute, used in orchestra and military band. |
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http://baroque-music.com/wc/info/flute.shtml
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| | Jayanta Banerjee - Bansuri Virtuoso |
| | He found the then existing short high-pitched Bansuri, which was popular in Indian folk and orchestral music, to be lacking in tonal depth required to perform North-Indian Classical ragas (melodic forms). | | | Pannalal Ghosh [ 31 July, 1911 - 20 April, 1960], was the first person to bring Bansuri to the North-Indian Hindustani classical music stage. | | | Flutes and Drums are among the most primitive and most commonly found instruments all around the world. |
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http://www.bansuri.org/bansuri.htm
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| | Shakuhachi Master |
| | John Singer, master shakuhachi teacher, performer, recording artist and former shakuhachi instructor at the University of Hawaii, has performed music on the Japanese bamboo flute since 1975. | | | Find here CDs of Japanese music, rare flutes for sale, and information by and about John Singer. | | | This genre of shakuhachi music (called Sankyoku in Japanese) began as early as the 16th century and has been continually developing to this day. |
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http://www.zenflute.com
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| | Ensemble Khreshchaty Yar - Ukraine - text in English |
| | Apart from dance music exists the improvised music of the shepherds, which is played on instruments like e.g. | | | the violin, the sopilka (end-blown shepherd's flute), the trembita (the Ukrainian version of the alpine horn, usually some three meters long; it was primarily used by the shepherds in signaling events such as weddings or funerals in the mountain regions of Ukraine and also kolyadky (carols) were played at Christmas) and the drymba (jew's harp). | | | The artists of Khreshchaty Yar wear local costumes for their performances and in their programmes, they have dances that reflect the living tradition and great variety of Ukrainian folklore. |
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http://www.face-music.ch/artists/ens_kreshchaty.html
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| | Search Results for flute - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Educational resource on the acoustical measurements of flutes. | | | Provides brief information on sound spectrum produced by fingering, properties of wind instruments, and musical notes, aided with sound files. | | | Woodwind instrument in which the sound is produced by blowing against... |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=flute&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | VIET NAM MUSIC © Chi D. Nguyen |
| | The sol is a flute, and sounds like a whistle. | | | It is most often heard in love songs and spring festival songs. | | | Its sound is easily distinguished from any other Vietnamese flute because it has a reed, which gives it an almost fiddle-like sound. |
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http://www.viettouch.com/vnmusic/vietnam_music_instruments.html
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| | Taikoza instruments |
| | There are different versions of it, the matsuribue is used in festivals and the shinobue or utabue is used to play folk songs. | | | Noh theatre also uses a type of fue called the Nohkan. | | | A number of new schools of solo Koto developed in the late 15th century. |
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http://www.taikoza.com/instruments.html
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| | End-blown flute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unlike a panpipe, both ends of the tube are open, and unlike a recorder or tin whistle, there is no fipple. | | | Although the required embouchure is difficult to master — many hours of practice are required to even produce a single tone — once acquired the player can make music on even the simplest tube or pipe from a hardware store. | | | People of the Andes play the quena, and the Hopi have a flute similar to the ney. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-blown_flute
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| | Fujara - overtone fiple flute |
| | Fipple flutes are end-blown flutes that are found in the folk music of many different cultures all over the world. | | | On contrary, the Fujara fipple flute is capable to play in 11 overtone series and the melody is mostly played by overblowing the instrument and thus reaching various overtones. | | | NAF, recorder or Irish tin whistle can play in first or second overtone series only and the melody is played out mainly by fingering. |
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http://www.fujara.sk/about/articles/fipple_flute.htm
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| | End-blown flute -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Unlike a (A primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together) panpipe, both ends of the tube are open, and unlike a (Equipment for making records) recorder or (An inexpensive fipple flute) tin whistle, there is no (A wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)) fipple. | | | Although the required (The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly) embouchure is difficult to master — many hours of practice are required to even produce a single tone — once acquired the player can make music on even the simplest tube or pipe from a hardware store. | | | The end-blown flute is a simple (Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments) woodwind instrument where the player directs air against the end of a pipe or tube. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/en/end-blown_flute.htm
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| | Jim Berenholtz: Ethnomusicologist: Collection of Instruments |
| | He plays most of these instruments, using them in both recordings and concerts, as well as for teaching workshops and classes | | | Nepalese Snakecharmer’s Flute - melody and drone pipes together; very reedy | | | Pu ili - Hawaiian bamboo percussion instrument for dancing |
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http://www.jimberenholtz.com/em/inst.html
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| | Adler - Irish Wood Whistle - [Sam Ash] |
| | The Wood-Whistle is an end blown flute with a mouthpiece and is part of the Recorder family. | | | The Wood-Whistle has its roots from the ancient Flageolet and is popular in Irish music and with other ethnic groups. |
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http://www.samash.com/catalog/showitem.asp?ItemID=29667&TempID=2
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| | HMT Catalog: Blue Dragon Bamboo flutes -- Bansuri, Ney, Kaval, Shakuhachi |
| | Western nomenclature has the bell note as the tuning note; in the Indian mode, the flute is tuned according to the note produced when the top three fingerholes are covered. | | | Flutes range in size from smallest: F, to largest: Bb (Western tuning), corresponding to Bb to Eb in Indian tuning. | | | Founder and leader of the Blue Dragon Band, Stream also works here in the store one day a week, teaches bamboo flute and hand drumming, repairs and reheads our hand drums, and runs the Friday Night Beat Jam. |
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http://www.hmtrad.com/catalog/winds/bluedragon.html
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| | Shakuhachi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Professional players can produce virtually any note they wish from the instrument, and play a wide repertoire of original Zen music, ensemble music with koto and samisen, folk music, jazz, modern music. | | | The shakuhachi (尺八 in Japanese, pronounced /shakoo-hatchee/) is a Japanese end-blown flute which is held vertically like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the familiar Western transverse flute. | | | Holes can be covered partially (1/3 covered, 1/2, 2/3, etc.) and pitch varied subtly or substantially by changing the blowing angle. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi
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| | pennywhistle: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | It can be described as an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, Native American flutes, and many other wind instruments found in traditional music. | | | A whistle can be made to produce a glissando effect by fitting it with a slide which can be moved up and down within the central cavity of the instrument, changing the frequency at which it resonates. | | | The next most common form is the conical sheet metal whistle with a wooden stop in the wide end to form the fipple, the Clarke's brand being the most prevalent. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/tin-whistle
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| | Arab Music - Part Four |
| | North African folk instruments include the qasabah, an end-blown reed flute which produces a breathy sound enriched with overtones. | | | Comparable in blowing technique and construction is the Palestinian yarghul, which has, instead of two melody tubes, one melody tube and a longer tube without holes, used for producing a sustained accompanying sound or drone. | | | Used mostly to accompany songs, this instrument is common in Southern Algeria and the Oasis area of Tunisia. |
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http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/m345/Arab_Music4.html
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| | Shaku End Blown Flutes |
| | Most end-blown flutes have that distinctive air-rush sound and it’s an indication of a higher Reynolds Number. | | | The angle at which the instrument is held varies according to the style of the upper rim. | | | In recorders the number is typically in the range of one to two thousand and the air jet remains laminar across the width of the instrument mouth. |
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http://www.navaching.com/shaku/endblown.html
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| | Nay Flutes - Egyptian and Turkish style straight bamboo nay flutes. |
| | The sound is made by blowing in the end of the flute. | | | Both Arab nai and Turkish ney come in different lengths, each one being tuned to a specific pitch, simular like the Irish pennywhistle. | | | The word nay means reed and the instrument is played from Morocco to Pakistan. |
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http://www.heritageethnicmusic.com/site/607029/page/272401
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| | Native Flutes Definitions |
| | The use of the western "pentatonic" or minor key tuning was first introduced and popularized by Michael Graham Allen (Coyote Oldman) and the late Kim Berton in the early 1970s. | | | Closely related to the recorder is the "flageolet," which differs mainly in that it only has six finger holes, including two on the bottom. | | | A fipple flute has an edge on the far the edge of a sound hole that splits the air flow and directs the air into the sound chamber. |
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http://www.zadjik.com/flutes/defins.htm
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| | World Music Central - N |
| | One of the principle instruments of Traditional Persian Music, the ney has a range of two and a half octaves. | | | The upper end is covered by a short brass cylinder which is anchored in the tiny space between the upper incisives of the player. | | | The Ney, which is probably the oldest pitched instrument known to man, is an oblique rim blown reed flute with five finger holes in front and one thumb hole in the back. |
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http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/staticpages/index.php/instruments_n.htm?mode=forumblock&order=posts
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| | Price, Creating & Using the North American Love Flute |
| | An appendix is provided which deals with technical issues of woodwind acoustics as it applies to the Native North American flute. | | | Also included are chapters on playing techniques, traditional uses of the flute and information on care and repair of the instrument. | | | Chapters include an historical overview of this instrument and uses in tradition native ceremonies emphasizing its importance as a tool for meditation and healing. |
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http://www.shakuhachi.com/CM-Price-LOVE.html
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| | Links - Flute Making Links |
| | Flute Building Instructions for Recorders and End-Blown Flutes in PVC. | | | Don Rivaldo's Native American Style Flutes and Instructional Video. | | | Roland Shambry's Starter End Blown Flute Building Instructions |
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http://www.shakuhachi.com/L-FluteMaking.html
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| | Dolmetsch Online - Music Dictionary X - Xz |
| | One form of xiqin is illustrated in Chen Yang's music enyclopedia completed in 1105. | | | Attached to the frontal tuning pegs were two strings, which, according to Chen's description, were sounded by a bamboo slip. | | | The lower end of a neck of bamboo is set into a squat tubular resonator, which is covered with a wooden soundboard. |
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http://www.dolmetsch.com/defsx.htm
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| | How I Made a Macedonian Kaval |
| | My original idea was to make another, longer Macedonian kaval, because I wanted to start playing Macedonian kaval and stop playing Bulgarian kaval, which didn't sound or feel quite right for Macedonian music. | | | Mile Kolarov was very favorably impressed by the several kavals I gave him, and some years later, Alex Eppler also complimented my humble little plexiglass kavals. | | | I figured the village maker had already done the designing work at his end, so I didn't need to re-invent the wheel (or the kaval). |
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http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/articles/kaval-miller.htm
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| | The Abell Flute Company - The Abell Whistle |
| | Our whistle is descended from the Celtic and Gaelic musical traditions and is used primarily to play the dance tunes and airs from Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany. | | | Almost all cultures in the world have an instrument related to the whistle; i.e., an end blown "flute" with a simple fingering system. | | | The most important habit to develop in maintaining the whistle is to shake or swab the moisture from the whistle after each playing session. |
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http://www.abellflute.com/whistle.html
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| | Kavals |
| | There are also four holes beyond the last finger hole which are never covered, but serve acoustic purposes. | | | This facilitates a characteristic of kaval playing style where the fingers are used to make various rapid chirping and popping sounds. | | | The metal inlay is pewter, in a traditional pattern. |
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http://www.robertsnider.com/Kavals
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| | China Books and Periodicals, Inc. 1 2 - DREAM OF RED MANSIONS-DONGXIAO(FLUTE) MUSIC |
| | The beautiful, soft tones of the dongxiao (end-blown wooden flute) are enhanced by the HDCD format, and 10 lovely, pensive songs (many on love themes) with traditional orchestra backing, and based on events in the DRM. | | | China Books and Periodicals, Inc. 1 2 - DREAM OF RED MANSIONS-DONGXIAO(FLUTE) MUSIC | | | SELECT PROSE FROM THE TANG AND SONG DYNASTIES |
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http://www.chinabooks.com/cart/product.php?productid=17958&cat=27&page=1
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| | Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection |
| | Two views of a Bressan treble recorder with original block separate. | | | Numerous cylindrical bore flutes were developed with elaborately revised simple system-based fingering schemes that embraced nearly all of Boehm's acoustic and venting innovations other than his actual spin-off fingering system. | | | The Japanese shakuhachi may be the most efficient instrument using this principle. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/dcmhtml/dmpref3.html
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| | The Flutes |
| | It has a very dynamic sound not unlike a concert instrument. | | | The flutes have beautiful sounds and people are often surprised at the ease with which they are able to produce the basic tones. | | | Played in the same position as the modern concert silver flute. |
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http://www.webspirit.com/fluteman/pages/flutes.htm
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