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Ocarina (South America, England, China, and various other countries) Organ pipe The pipes of the church/chamber organ are actually fipple flutes. Recorder (General) Tin Whistle (Pennywhistle) (Ireland) Shvi (Armenia) Dilli Kaval (Turkey)
The ocarina went on to become popular in European communities as a toy instrument. [1] Ocarina, c. 1900, Museu de la Música de Barcelona. One of the oldest ocarinas found in Europe is from Runik, Kosovo. The Runik ocarina is a Neolithic flute-like wind instrument, and is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo. [4]
Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was an Italian musical instrument maker who invented the ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. [1] Donati was born in Budrio. [2]
The instrument name comes from the category plasmaphones, in which the sound comes from plasma. unpitched percussion: Pyrophone: plasmaphone: Uses explosions to produce sound in pipes. Weak similarity to pipe organ or calliope (which run air/steam through pipes, but producing sound through the friction of air on ducts). pitched percussion ...
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The shorthand for the instrumentation of a symphony orchestra (and other similar ensembles) is used to outline which and how many instruments, especially wind instruments, are called for in a given piece of music. The shorthand is ordered in the same fashion as the parts of the individual instruments in the score (when read from top to bottom).
The Runik ocarina is the oldest ocarina found in Europe. [1] It was found in the village of Runik , Skenderaj , Kosovo . It dates back to at least 8000 years ago, and it is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo and the Balkans.
Including and derived from the instruments built by H.F. Meyer from 1850 to the late 1890s, it could have up to 12 keys and was built with head joints of either metal-lined ivory or wood. The final form was a combination of a traditional keyed flute and the Viennese flute, and became the most common throughout Europe and America .