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The vertical flute is contrasted with the "cross flute" (or "transverse flute") and "globular flute", and in stricter usage may refer only to the first category above (Marcuse 1975, 187). The most familiar ducted vertical flutes are the recorder, tin whistle, and tabor pipe. One historical variety has a slightly tapered (decreasing diameter ...
The tungso (Korean: 퉁소; sometimes tongso, transliteration of its Chinese name of dòngxiāo) is a Korean notched, end-blown vertical bamboo flute used in Korean traditional music. [1] It is similar to the danso, but longer and larger. [2] The hanja tong (洞) was used to describe the shape of the instrument that resembles a long cave. [3]
Bulungudyong – vertical flute (Pinatubo Ayta) Diwas; Palendag – lip-valley flute (Kalinga) Tongali – nose flute (Kalinga) Tumpong – bamboo flute; Tulali – flute with 6 holes; Bansik – bamboo flute with three holes of the Negrito people in Zambales; Tambuli – Carabao horn
End-blown flute: Xiao (end-blown vertical bamboo flute) Gudi, an ancient vertical flute made from the bones of large birds; Paixiao (pan pipes with distinctive notched or curved blowholes to allow for greater expression) Xun (clay globular flute) (Uyghur and Mongolian minorities also play a version of the Turkish ney.) Fipple flutes:
It has a moderate range of pitch, not too high or low. It is vertical duct flute with eight tone holes. At mouthpiece there is a solid wooden block ("dak"Thai: ดาก), similar to that of a recorder (musical instrument). The dak has the diameter of the tube and usually have the length of 2 inches, and was inserted at an end of the tube.
A ceramic xiao flute player excavated from an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) tomb in Sichuan province Several dongxiao in the G-key. A Taiwanese xiao. The xiao (simplified Chinese: 箫; traditional Chinese: 簫; pinyin: xiāo; Wade–Giles: hsiao 1; Jyutping: siu1, pronounced [ɕi̯ɑ́ʊ̯]) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute.
The dan in the instrument's name means "short", and so refers to the notched, end-blown vertical bamboo flute. To match its name, It is the shortest wind instrument played vertically. [ 3 ] Another Korean end-blown vertical bamboo flute, the tungso ( Korean : 퉁소 ; Hanja : 洞 簫 ), is longer.
The modern atenteben flute, built in B flat and C, was developed by the musicologist, composer, and flutist Ephraim Amu (1899-1995), whose pioneering work established a notated musical tradition for the instrument and included the instrument into the curriculum of major educational institutions in Ghana, notably, the Achimota Secondary School ...