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A third method uses a pictorial tablature similar to the ocarina's finger hole pattern, with blackened holes that represent holes to cover. The tablature represents the holes on the top of the ocarina, and, where necessary, the holes on the underside. This enables easy playing, particularly for beginners. The two most popular tablature systems are:
fingering chart. 16th-century illustrations show an instrument which had only a few tone holes, and a very limited range. The intact clay gemshorn, mentioned above, which was found beneath a 15th-century house, had a chromatic range of one octave. Modern makers have often chosen to build them using the Baroque recorder fingering.
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:
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.
For example, the fingering 0123 (G 5) is not a forked fingering, while 0123 56 (F ♯ 5) is a forked fingering because the open hole 4 has holes covered below it – holes 5 and 6. Forked fingerings allow for smaller adjustments in pitch than the sequential uncovering of holes alone would allow. For example, at the same air speed the fingering ...
Taodi and Wudu (Chinese ocarina.) Free reed flutes: Bawu (transverse free-reed flute) Hulusi (vertical gourd free-reed flute normally with one or two drone pipes) Chinese flutes are generally made from bamboo (see bamboo flute) and belong to the bamboo classification of Chinese music, although they can be (and have been) made of other materials ...
The average length was 40 cm (16 in), the diameter of the finger holes was 2 cm (0.79 in), and there were 6 finger holes – 5 at the front, 1 at the back. [3] [2] In the 15th century, the hitoyogiri shakuhachi (一節切尺八) appeared. It is characterized by a single bamboo joint in the middle of the tube.
If the space between the hands is made smaller or the opening made larger, the pitch becomes higher: the principles are the same with an ocarina or Helmholtz resonator; see vessel flute for details of the acoustics. The best hand flute players have a range of up to 2.5 octaves. [2]