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    rhythmic instruments like claves or rattles, jew harps and other rare instruments

    Percussion

    Percussion is used to describe various rhythm instruments, especially rattles with many different sounds, but also tonewoods, small drums, or jew's harps

    What is music without the diverse sounds of percussion.
    Percussion instruments are often very simple instruments, ultimately just everyday objects that are used to beat the rhythm. As simple as these instruments are, there are many variations, especially when it comes to the materials, which then repeatedly create new sound images.

    Then there are simple rhythm instruments like claves.
    Rattles can be made from many objects. Rattles are often used for rites and have a protective character. Ultimately also in toddler hands in the cradle.
    But more elaborate instruments such as the kalimba or thetambourine also belong to the rhythm instruments.
    Some instruments imitate animal voices like the sound frog or the owl.
    And last but not least, the folk instrument the jew's harp should be mentioned here.
    We have also sorted the curiosity of the nose flute or the shrutibox here with the percussions.

    Persusion instruments are often very old, come from different cultures and still accompany modern music today.

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    Melody book for practice chanter

    Melodybook for the Practice Chanter.
    It is not a teachingbook, just a melodybook. It is based on the reading of notes and the handling of a windinstrument.
    It is special made for the simple change from recorder to the Practice Chanter.
    But it is also a practice for the bagpipe.

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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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    Dizi - chinee travers flute

    Dizi is a traditional chinese travers flute.
    This flute has a special: between the mouth hole and the finger holes is a hole, which is closed with a ricepaper.
    This paper starts to vibrate while playing and changes the sound to a vibrating timbre.
    The fingering is like typical six-hole flutes, playable about two octaves.
    We offer this flute in differents tonalities.

    In china the declaration of tonality is different to europe. They don't sign the deepest note, but the note at the third hole from the bottom. That means a flute in chinese F is C-major (deepest note C).

    So we have the tonalities:

    chineses G / D

    chinese F / C

    chinese D / A

    chinese C / G

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