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    different flutes played like a recorder

    flutes

    different recorder, classic or traditional, irish flute, ocarina, native inidan flute. tabor pipe, overtone flute

    The term "flute" is often used for a wind instrument in general.

    We summarize all recorder-like flutes here, i.e. flutes that are blown like a recorder.

    The mouthpiece of this flute is built as a core gap flute, which means you have a wind tunnel that is formed by the peg in the top of the flute. The wind tunnel directs the air blown in to a labium, a sharp edge on a window, so that the air breaks there and a sound is created. Recorders are quite easy to blow and are therefore often used as an introduction to the world of wind instruments.

    Of course, the classic recorders are known, such as the soprano recorder, which is usually used as the first school recorder. But many traditional flutes are also built as recorders, whether from simple reeds or from sheet metal like the Irish Tin Whistle. The ocarina as a vessel flute is just as much a part of the recorder as the bone flute, the native Indian flute or the one-handed flute like the tabor pipe. Even the overtone flute, which has no finger holes, is blown like a recorder.

    What goes beyond that are the travers flute or notch flutes. These flutes have simpler mouthpieces and are blown differently accordingly.

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    Hapi Mini

    A smaller version of the hapi in a higher pitch ( about 20 cm in diameter ).

    8 notes pentatonic

    in C major (C - D - E - G - A - C - D - E) or

    D-major (D - E - F# - A - B - C - D - E - F#) or

    D-akebono (D - E - F - A - B - D - E - F)

    Especially exciting here is the D-akebono tuning, which builds up a very exciting sound in the high register.

    Bag and mallet included

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    Gaita de Gemec

    The Gaita de Gemec is made of bubinga and comes with a leather bag. It's in Do (C) and has one drone. The sound is a little stronger than at the Gaita Gallega, and even the pressure to play is a little bit harder.

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    Hulusi - chinese gourd flute

    The Hu-Lu-Si is not a double reed instrument but produces the sound with simple reeds from metal.
    A gourd is used for the mouthpiece to blow three pipes together. One pipe has fingering holes for playing melodies, the other two on the sides playing as a bordun.

    So the sound remember to a bagpipe.
    Although the metal tongues make a soft vibrating sound, similar like a mouth-organ.

    Simple Hulusi have often only one bordun, and the third pipe is just a fake. This Hulusi, we offer, has two bordun. They are tuned in quint.

    To play the Hulusi is easy, you don't need a special technic, you just blow in. You can open or close the bordun, but how much borduns are open it need more air to play..Chinese wind-instruments are signed for the tonalitiy at the third hole. This means an instrument chinese F, sounds in C, the deepest note of the melodypipe is C. The large bordun than is tuned in D, like the second note of the melody-pipe. The small bordun than sounds in A, a quint higher than D. You can play a none at the melodypipe ( deep C to high D).

    The Hulusi is availabel in differnt tunes and qualities:

    high sound:

    • chinese D - deepest note F, bordun E and B

    deep sound:

    • chinese G - deepest note D, bordun E and B
    • chinese F - deepest note C, bordun D and A

    Every Hulusi has a luck-knot and a hardcase.

    Fingering charts:

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