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    native indian flute, traditional flute of the north american indians

    native indian flute

    The Indian flute is the traditional flute of the North American Indians, hence also called the native Indian flute.

    The tradition of this flute is based on a legend that a great spotted woodpecker showed an Indian how to build a flute from a branch. Even today, the carved bird on these flutes pays homage to the great spotted woodpecker. But this little bird is not only an ornament but also has a function for sound generation. It is roughly a stake placed on the outside.

    But not only this construction is extraordinary, the tuning of the tone sequence is traditionally not an octave but a pentatonic tone sequence. In the pentatonic, five (Greek penta = five) tones are selected from the octave, so that there are no semitone steps between the tones. There are of course semitones in the scale between the tones e and f and the tones h and c, as well as intermediate tones such as an f sharp or a b. You are now looking for 5 tones from an octave that do not result in semitones (with c major that would be eg c, d, f, g and a) this creates a very harmonious sound image, there are no dissonances between the tones. That is why you can freely improvise in the pentatonic and there is always a harmonic melody. These improvised, freely harmonious swinging melodies with the soft, mostly deep sound characterize the sound of the Indian flute.
    It becomes particularly exciting when the flute is built as a double flute. Two flutes are tied together so that they can be blown at the same time. One flute is completely normal with finger holes, the second flute has no finger holes and always sounds the same tone, a so-called drone tone. This underlines the melody accordingly.

    native indian flute high tonality

    indianerfloete-hoch
    indianerfloete-hoch
    indianerfloete-hoch

    With 5 holes for the fingers and one for the thumb. it plays 2 octaves. This indian flute is very intuitiv to learn. It comes with a tutorial. Pentatonic tuning, with one more note.

    Made fro plastic, with decoration bird

    sound example high Indianerflöte     

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    native indian flute deep tonality

    indianerfloete-tief

    Like the small native inidan flute but in deeper tuning (A, G, Fis or F).

    Very warm and soft sound. Like the traditional native indian flute it is tuned pentatonic..

    The flute comes with a bag and a tutorial

    made from plastic with decoration bird

    sound example deep Indianerflöte     

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    double native indian flute

    indianerfloete-doppel
    indianerfloete-doppel

    two flutes played with one mouthpiece. One flute plays the melody the other just one note. This base note can change by the pressure.

    Tunigs G, F and E

    made from plastic

    Klangbeispiel doppelte Indianerflöte     

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    reed flutes

    A flute from India cut from a piece of reed. According to a traditional tuning, it has only six finger holes and can therefore be played just like the tin-whistle. A good alternative to the tin-whistle with a slightly smokier and warmer sound.
    The large flutes with a low pitch are a particularly favourable alternative to the low-whistle.

    In addition to the recorders, reed flutes of the same type are also available as traverse flutes.

    We offer the following keys for recorders and flutes:
    high register in g (21 cm long), f sharp, f, e, d sharp, d (29 cm long), c sharp, c (33 cm long), b and b flat
    low register in a, g sharp, G (43 cm), F and E (54 cm).

    The low flutes from tuning G upwards take some practice in terms of fingering and are difficult or impossible to play with small hands.

    These simple flutes are quite cleanly tuned, but the fundamental tone can deviate by up to a quarter tone.

     

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    The tenor-psalterium has 2 1/2 Octaves from Do (C) to sol (G), ca. 68 cm lang.

    The deepest note is one octave deeper than the deepest note at the soprano psaltery

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    Mandola

    The Mandola is a larger and deeper variant of the mandoline.

    Like the mandolne has it 4 double strings, so at all are 8 strings, where always two are in the same tuning.

    The instrument is one octave depper than the mandoline in the same tuning Sol - Re - La - Mi (G - D- A - E).

    So both instruments are played the same, but the mensur of the mandola is not so narrow like at the mandoline and it has a warmer sound.

    The Mandola has the same tuning and donality like a cister or an irish bouzouki. Just the deep strings are not in an octave but doubled.

    The mandola comes with a bag and an accord-table.

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