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As a member of Viva Quetzal since 1993 he can be heard performing on quenas, zampoñas, charango, Venezuelan cuatro, and vocals.
He has studied music at Berklee College of Music, Westfi
performs on flute, saxophones, wind synth, quena, congas, and small percussion.
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Finally, I remember reading about a long Ukrainian bevel flute used mainly at funerals, which is commonly played with the humming techique you talk about.
The playing style used for kavals and what I use on the shupilka is different to that in you article.
I don't hold the flute straight in front, like a South American quena, nor like a transverse flute, but somewhere in between so that I am blowing on the "side" of the bevel, a little bit out of the side of the mouth, using the whistling shape you describe.
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They also use the charango, a guitar-like instrument with five strings a drum called a bombo and rattles called shajshas made of polished goat hooves, tied together.
Typically called musica folklorica, Andean musicians use wind instruments such as the quena, a flute made of varying lengths of bamboo, the siqu, a set of pan pipes with two rows of bamboo canes and ocarinas, small ovals made of clay with holes.
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 quena - definition of quena by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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quena - definition of quena by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
A recorderlike Andean flute having a notched mouthpiece.
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