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	flutebd1.txt
		(I have found it useful to use a keyboard with a flute voice, sounding a middle C note.) - Measure the length of the tube from the end of the notch(away from the blowing end) to the end of the tube(away from the blowing end) along the drawn line.
		- Blow into the end of the tube so that the air flow is directed down into and splits the blade of the notch.
		The sharp edge should be on the inner side of the tube.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/3532/flutebd1.txt (383 words)

	End-blown flute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The end-blown flute is a simple woodwind instrument where the player directs air against the end of a pipe or tube.
		Unlike a panpipe, both ends of the tube are open, and unlike a recorder or tin whistle, there is no fipple.
		People of the Andes play the quena, and the Hopi have a flute similar to the ney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/End-blown_flute (179 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - transverse flute
		The modern flute used to be known as the transverse flute in order to distinguish it from an end-blown flute such as a recorder.
		flute with mouth hole on side: a flute with the mouth hole on top of the barrel near one end.
		The player blows across the hole while holding the flute in a sideways horizontal position.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861721552/transverse_flute.html (89 words)

	Jayanta Banerjee - Bansuri Virtuoso
		Whether it is the Shakuhachi Bamboo Flutes of Japan with four finger holes and one thumb hole, the ancient bamboo flutes of China or the end-blown bamboo flutes popular in the Arab nations, the bamboo flutes are found all around the world.
		Flutes and Drums are among the most primitive and most commonly found instruments all around the world.
		The bamboo flute is equally popular among the rural as well as the urban populace.
	www.bansuri.org /bansuri.htm (450 words)

	Piccolo and Eb Flute
		Many notes on the flute that have a tendency to be sharp tend to be flat on the piccolo and vice versa.
		Tenor flutes today are extremely rare and generally are only used for jazz as they are in the same key as tenor saxophones and clarinets, making it easier for the jazz musician to double on all three instruments.
		This less well known member of the flute family was originally used in U.S. public school bands as a substitute for the more expensive Eb clarinet from approximately the 1940's through the early 1970's as well as a beginner flute for students with very small hands.
	members.glis.net /kjt/tealflutestudio/PiccoloEbTenor.html (1302 words)

	World of Flutes
		A transverse flute is a tube with one end stopped up and has a blowhole that you blow across to split the air.
		Both flutes came in families called consorts, which were arranged according to size with the smallest to largest being sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
		Flutes throughout history, have been made of many materials including bones, reeds, stone, bamboo, hard woods such as maple, baked clay, porcelain, ivory, glass, metals such as silver, hard rubber, and modern plastics.
	www.svsu.edu /flutee/WorldOfFlutes.html (966 words)

	End-blown flute -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The end-blown flute is a simple (Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments) woodwind instrument where the player directs air against the end of a pipe or tube.
		Unlike a (A primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together) panpipe, both ends of the tube are open, and unlike a (Equipment for making records) recorder or (An inexpensive fipple flute) tin whistle, there is no (A wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)) fipple.
		Although the required (The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly) embouchure is difficult to master — many hours of practice are required to even produce a single tone — once acquired the player can make music on even the simplest tube or pipe from a hardware store.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/en/end-blown_flute.htm (216 words)

	Shaku End Blown Flutes
		An end-blown flute is a variety of flute in which the airstream is directed against the sharp rim of the open upper end of a pipe by the player’s lips.
		Generally, end-blown flutes have an aspect ratio somewhere in the range of 40, thus the shakuhachi is unusual in that its aspect ratio usually centers around 30.
		In end-blown flutes pitch and timbre bending are inseparably bound together and, in a way, two different aspect of the same thing.
	www.navaching.com /shaku/endblown.html (1996 words)

	Union Band Club - Luqa (Malta)
		The flute is played by blowing air into a hole at the end of the instrument.
		In the 1700’s the side blown flute came into the musical scene.
		Although the flute is classified as a woodwind instrument, today’s instruments are made up of silver, gold and other metals.
	www.unionbandmalta.org /FLUTE.htm (416 words)

	Fujara - overtone fiple flute
		Fipple flutes are end-blown flutes that are found in the folk music of many different cultures all over the world.
		In fipple flute the top end is stopped with a block (fipple) except for a small, flat opening for blowing, and there is a notch (duct) in the top side of the pipe near the blowing end.
		Fujara flute has only 3 holes (vents) but the height of the tone is decided mainly by the strength of in-blown air.
	www.fujara.sk /about/articles/fipple_flute.htm (388 words)

	UpRite Headjoint Brochure Page 3
		In vertical flutes, more commonly known as the end blown flute, sound begins the same as air is blown across one end of an open tube as illustrated in figure three.
		The blown air directed from the lips is divided and oscillates as it strikes the far edge of the blow hole.
		When blowing into a baffled structure whether a bottle or a transverse flute, the jet stream and resulting note will be stable as expressed by straight lines originating from the lips in figure one and figure two.
	www.drelinger.com /brochure/uprite_brochure3.htm (262 words)

	Lilting metamorphosis - Deccan Herald
		Sculptural representations of this instrument as end blown and the horizontal varieties are found from the beginning of the 1st century B C at Sanchi and later in Gandhara.
		Indeed the flute depicted in paintings and sculptures of Lord Krishna is widely known to be the transverse flute.
		Flutes in India were known to be used since the Vedic times and was called the ‘Tunava’ and the ‘Nadi’.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/july112004/ac2.asp (937 words)

	FAQ - Fujara flute playing technique
		The Fujara flute is blown into the mouthpiece at the lower end of the smaller Fujara flute wind pipe.
		Fingering is used mostly in the lower bass flute series (lower three octaves) while on the other hand the fourth, highest fujara octave is played purely by overblowing the overtones where the height of tone is decided by the sthrenght of the inblown air.
		Scatter is a high-intensity ornament particular to the fujara overtone flute that is often used at the beginning of songs.
	www.fujara.sk /faq/playing_technique.htm (679 words)

	shakuhachi -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The bell (flared end) consists of the trunk of the bamboo plant with its root ends.
		In flutes, sound is generated when the airstream provided by the musician is directed against a sharp edge.
		The shakuhachi's blowing end is cut obliquely outward, and a small piece of ivory or bone is inserted at the edge so that subtle varieties of tone colour can be produced.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067094?tocId=9067094 (480 words)

	Shakuhachi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The shakuhachi(尺八 in Japanese, pronounced /shakoo-hatchee/) is a Japanese end-blown flute which is held vertically like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the familiar Western transverse flute.
		It is usually made from the root end of a bamboo culm and is an extremely versatile instrument.
		It was used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of Suizen (blowing meditation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shakuhachi (1209 words)

	Flutes
		End-blown flutes are held the same way you would hold a Western Oboe or Clarinet and the sound is created by blowing over a wedge-shaped cut in the embeture.
		One flute is used as a drone by filling the holes with wax.
		The diffuculty in playing these flutes, like the Dvoyanka, is that the drone needs to stay at the same note all the time and the melody flute will chage octaves.
	www.toddgreen.com /flutes.html (1149 words)

	Shakuhachi Master
		The Shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown bamboo flute.
		John Singer, master shakuhachi teacher, performer, recording artist and former shakuhachi instructor at the University of Hawaii, has performed music on the Japanese bamboo flute since 1975.
		Find here CDs of Japanese music, rare flutes for sale, and information by and about John Singer.
	www.zenflute.com (528 words)

	Arab Music - Part Four
		One is the open-ended, end-blown reed flute that is known as minjayrah among the Lebanese and shabbabah among the Palestinians.
		North African folk instruments include the qasabah, an end-blown reed flute which produces a breathy sound enriched with overtones.
		Unlike flute types, the mijwiz and other double clarinet types are played by a process known as "circular breathing," which allows the performer to produce a continuous non-interrupted sound.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /m345/Arab_Music4.html (1174 words)

	Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
		In the case of those transverse or cross flutes with a cork setting mechanism in which the threaded rod shaft, which is used to adjust the cork, perforates the entire cap, exposing variable lengths beyond it, our measurements omit that exposed end.
		Flutes described as Boehm system are understood to be of the later cylindrical bore design unless stated otherwise.
		Transverse flutes of the nineteenth and early twentieth century having a full or partially metal-lined headjoint including a tuning slide are very susceptible to cracks.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/dcmhtml/dmpref3.html (2199 words)

	Woodwind Central - Flute Info
		The word flute was used indiscriminately to denote both types during medieval times, but in the baroque period flute or flauto specifically meant the end-blown recorder.
		From medieval times two methods of producing sound were used: (a) blowing across a round mouth-hole as on the panpipes or transverse (side-blown) flute; (b) blowing into a whistle mouthpiece (end-blown) as on the recorder or flageolet.
		The modern flute is descended from the German (transverse) flute.
	baroque-music.com /wc/info/flute.shtml (602 words)

	Article from The Flutesmith Newsletter
		When he composed Entre Funérailles IV in 2000, he was already familiar with many of the sonorities and extended techniques available on the flute from hearing the students of John Fonville, who were focused on contemporary flute techniques and repertoire.
		Hui found that many of flute sonorities she was most attracted to as a composer were the ones we "unlearn" as we develop our flute technique, like playing with a diffuse tone and playing "between" pitches (microtones).
		Bledsoe uses a quartertone flute in her performance of Entre Funérailles IV, the piece does not require it and can be performed on an ordinary C flute.
	www.enewsbuilder.net /eletra/mod_print_view.cfm?this_id=121437&u=jlsmithco&issue_id=000026195 (584 words)

	World Music Central - S
		Air is blown into a hole on the side of the flute, and a wooden stick inserted into the end of the flute leads the flow of air through the resonating chamber.
		http://www.mp3.com/gajendragadkarvora flute and tar-shenai (relative of the dilruba, a bowed instrument)
		The two ends are made of copper and the body is made of wood with eight holes.
	worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/instruments_s.htm (1586 words)

	VIET NAM MUSIC © Chi D. Nguyen
		A high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and 6 finger holes on the side and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown.
		The 1-hole flute's ornamentations and tonal nuances is created by varying the pressure and shape of the lips and varying the position of the finger over the single hole.
		A percussion consisting of a hollow vase-shaped sound-body with a membrane stretched tightly over one end strained by a system of strings which are fastened at the swelling of the sound-body, played by beating with the hands or sticks.
	www.viettouch.com /vnmusic/vietnam_music_instruments.html (1379 words)

	Flute Photos & Pricing
		All my flutes are 6 hole with the middle hole covered by a leather tie.
		May be played as a soulful drone or as 2 flutes in heavenly harmony.
		A soulful, deeply resonant flute especially good for large hands.
	www.nativeloveflutes.com /photos.html (162 words)

	xiao
		The xiao is the end-blown flute of China.
		It is an ancient flute, dating from 1000 BC.
		It is made of smooth bamboo with traditional drawing or characters on it.
	www.engineering.usu.edu /ece/faculty/wheeler/Instruments/xiao.html (60 words)

	HMT Catalog: Blue Dragon Bamboo flutes -- Bansuri, Ney, Kaval, Shakuhachi
		Flutes range in size from smallest: F, to largest: Bb (Western tuning), corresponding to Bb to Eb in Indian tuning.
		Western nomenclature has the bell note as the tuning note; in the Indian mode, the flute is tuned according to the note produced when the top three fingerholes are covered.
		All flutes are expertly tuned, finished with non-toxic organic oils inside and out, and bound with waxed thread.
	www.hmtrad.com /catalog/winds/bluedragon.html (198 words)

	History of the Shakuhachi
		The shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute varying from 1.3 to over 3 feet in length.
		This shakuhachi was later referred to as the hitoyogiri to distinguish it from the longer, heavier, and bigger bore flutes that the mendicant monks eventually developed.
		These flutes have 6 finger holes, and were made from thin walled bamboo.
	www.emptybell.org /shakhist.html (637 words)

	Search Results for flute - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The shakuhachi end-blown flute is a variant of the Chinese hsiao, and examples of it can be found in the famous 8th-century Shoso-in treasure house mentioned earlier.
		In flutes, the airstream is directed against a sharp edge; in reeds, the air...
		Covers flute makers and dealers, sheet music, music schools, organizations, magazines, recordings, repair, health issues, educational help, composers of flute repertoires, various national types of flutes, and private teachers.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=flute&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (457 words)

	Transverse Flutes: An Overview
		Another method is the end-blown flute, such as that used on the Japanese shakuhachi; the end of the tube is rested against the lower lip and the air is directed over a notch, indentation, or wedge-shaped area; the kena of South America is also end blown.
		Flute is little mentioned in the writings of the 18th and 19th century, although pipes and fiddles are ubiquitous in literary references.
		The Renaissance flute was made in several sizes, an Alto in G, a Tenor in D, and a Bass in G or A; it was a straight tube, small finger holes, and produced an expressive tone.
	larkinthemorning.com /article.asp?AI=39 (1642 words)

	Workshop - The Arab and Mediterranean Music Center - Tunisia
		It is also an end-blown flute but it differs from the nay in its finger hole arrangement.
		The nay is made of a fully-grown cane stalk between 60 to 80 cm long, cut from the straight part where the internodes are more or less the same length apart and the interior diameter is uniform.
		A small disk is cut from the middle of this node's circular membrane, leaving a ring sticking to the inner surface of the tube that will vibrate when the musician blows into it.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Instruments/Anglais/cmam_activites_en.html (795 words)

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