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The solid "stop” near the mouth hole or embouchure on a pipe that is blown transversely is analogous to it. This provides historical justification for using the term "fipple flute" to designate a recorder (cf. the German term Blockflöte). Subsequent authors have used the term in that sense but differ in the element of the mechanical ...
In 1986, KHS transferred most of its production from its small factory in greater Taipei to a major complex in nearby Zhongli. In 1993, KHS started building a factory near Tianjin, China for the main purpose of entering the Chinese market. The KHS Chinese factory began producing instruments and instrument parts in 1996.
Others attribute the decline of the recorder in part to the flute innovators of the time, such as Grenser, and Tromlitz, who extended the transverse flute's range and evened out its tonal consistency through the addition of keys, or to the supposedly greater dynamic range and volume of the flute. [89]
Slide whistle Diagram of a slide whistle. Sections: 1: mouthpiece, 2: fipple, 3: resonant cavity, 4: slide, 5: pull rod, 6: pipe. A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, [1] piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.
Natural utaguchi without inlay. The hotchiku (法竹 (ほっちく), "bamboo of [the] dharma"; lit. ' dharma bamboo '), sometimes romanized as hocchiku or hochiku, is a Japanese aerophone, an end-blown bamboo flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo. [1]
The clarinet mouthpiece is narrow inside, typically with straight side walls. [clarification needed] through the throat. The bottom of the mouthpiece is formed with a tenon that is ringed with cork. Today, as with the saxophone mouthpiece, the reed is placed against the surface (the table) closest to the player's bottom lip.
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It is a five-holed flute with a V-shaped mouthpiece and was made from a vulture wing bone. The discovery was published in the journal Nature , in August 2009. [ 26 ] This was the oldest confirmed musical instrument ever found, [ 27 ] until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be older, at 42,000 to 43,000 years.