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Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the standard transverse flute, [3] but the sound it produces is an octave higher. This has given rise to the name ottavino [ b ] ( Italian pronunciation: [ottaˈviːno] ), by which the instrument is called in Italian [ 4 ] and thus ...
The Runik ocarina is a Neolithic flute-like wind instrument, and is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo. [4] The modern European ocarina dates back to the 19th century, when Giuseppe Donati from Budrio , a town near Bologna, Italy , transformed the ocarina from a toy, which played only a few notes, into a more ...
The object has been identified as a musical instrument by the excavators, an ocarina-type [1] globular flute. [2] The flute has no find context, having been discovered in a ploughed field, but the date of the Neolithic settlement at Mramor ranges from between 5000 and 4000 BC.
The flute is used in many ensembles including concert bands, orchestras, flute ensembles, occasionally jazz bands and big bands. The instrument is pitched in C and has a range of just over three octaves starting from the musical note C 4 (corresponding to middle C on the piano), however, some experienced flautists are able to reach C 8.
He is one of the oldest surviving players in Egypt whose unique signature is the ability to produce various sound effects on the instrument using the circular breathing technique. Ibrahim Shahin – who used to play in Mawawil – was another well-known Egyptian kawala player.
Borrindos, vessel flutes made of clay, often by children. These flutes are edge-blown. They have no fipple and rely on the player's mouth to direct the air at an edge. Xun. Hun; Borrindo; Hand flute; Kōauau ponga ihu (a Māori gourd vessel flute played with the nose) [citation needed] Ipu ho kio kio (a similar instrument from Hawai'i ...
Vessel flutes are musical instruments whose sound is produced by air striking a solid edge of the instrument, but the body of the instrument is enclosed, rather than cylindrical. They are like a simple whistle, but they have one or more holes, for changing the pitch.
The tin whistle in its modern form is from a wider family of fipple flutes which have been seen in many forms and cultures throughout the world. [2] In Europe, such instruments have a long and distinguished history and take various forms, of which the most widely known are the recorder, tin whistle, Flabiol, Txistu and tabor pipe.