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Both the Maya and Aztecs produced versions of the ocarina, but it was the Aztecs who brought to Europe the song and dance that accompanied the ocarina. 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 ...
A vessel flute with two fingering holes of the same size can sound three notes (both closed, one open, both open). A vessel flute with two fingering holes of different sizes can sound four notes (both closed, only the smaller hole open, only the bigger hole open, both open). The number of notes increases with the number of holes:
Modern versions of the fife are chromatic, having 10 or 11 finger holes that allow any note to be played. On a 10-hole fife, the index, middle and ring fingers of both hands remain in the same positions as on the six-hole fife, while both thumbs and both pinkies are used to play accidentals.
By this description, the fipple is a plug that nearly closes one end of the pipe, open only for the duct that "straightens” the channel of air blown axially into the instrument. The solid "stop” near the mouth hole or embouchure on a pipe that is blown transversely is analogous to it.
Head joint – the top section of the flute, it has the tone hole/lip plate where the player initiates the sound by blowing air across the opening. Body – the middle section of the flute with the majority of the keys. Closed-hole – a fully covered finger key. Open-hole – a finger key with a perforated center.
The maker would form a nose hole in the neck (or stem) of the gourd, by cutting off the neck at a fairly small cross-section. This small hole is placed under the player's nostril, in order to generate the flute-tone. The kōauau ponga ihu functions as an ocarina in its acoustic principles. Several notes of a scale can be obtained by drilling ...
The front of a glazed pottery xun, showing blowing hole and six finger holes The back of a glazed pottery xun, showing blowing hole and two thumb holes. The xun (simplified Chinese: 埙; traditional Chinese: 塤; pinyin: xūn; Cantonese= hyun1) is a globular, vessel flute from China.
A much larger (typically 150 to 170 cm long), sophisticated 3-hole pipe played is the Slovak fujara, made of two connected parallel pipes of different lengths. This is not to be mistaken with the Polish single pipe ( fujara , fujarka ), which is a much smaller (up to 40 cm) old-fashioned instrument usually made of willow bark . [ 2 ]