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The hand flute, or handflute, is a musical instrument made out of the player's hands. It is also called a hand ocarina or hand whistle . To produce sound, the player creates a chamber of air with their hands, into which they blow air via an opening at the thumbs.
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 gemshorn is an instrument of the ocarina family that was historically made from the horn of a chamois, goat, or other suitable animal. [1] The gemshorn receives its name from the German language, in which Gemshorn means a "chamois horn". [2]
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.
A significant find is a baked-clay ocarina 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in length, known as the Runik Ocarina, the oldest musical instrument found in Kosovo to date. [ 5 ] In the village lay also the ruins of the medieval church Shen Gjergj (Saint George).
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This caused the instrument to produce a sound more closely resembling that of an oboe. [8] Another type of flute used was a tube flute which was capable of producing 3 note chords, a role not commonly fulfilled by wind instruments. [9] The Maya also played the Ocarina, a small, whistle-sized Vessel flute. Depending on their construction ...