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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]
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 ...
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]
Wind instruments by tone holes (4 C) Woodwind instrument parts and accessories (9 P) Μ. Woodwind instrument stubs (2 C, 62 P) Pages in category "Woodwind instruments"
Erke, wind instrument of Argentina. A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by ...
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 .