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"The Higher-Octave Flute Set"
Here
is my Newest Creation The "Higher-Octave Chakra Flute Set".
These Native American Flutes are tuned in Pentatonic Minor Keys,
and are of five hole design. The Tunings are as follows: C ,D
,E , F ,G , A , B . With these keys you may simply want to enjoy
these flutes as individual musical instruments, or you may want
to work with a client and aid in their relaxation, or help them
with meditation. Whatever your choice is when you own a set of
my "Higher-Octave" you will have in your possession
7 Quality Musical Instruments, that areTuned . As well as the
flutes, I also include at no extra charge the inlaid stones,
which add to the Beauty and Charm of this set of Flutes, as well
as include the stand you see pictured, which also has the appropriate
stone also inlaid on the base.
The Price for "Higher-Octave
Native American "inspired"Flute Set "is $1195.00 which
also includes the stand. Shipping and Handling on this item is$45.00
Contact me at:sunnyheartley@cableone.net
To PurchWhat Is A Native American Flute?
As we first begin to explore the Native American flute, we find
an array of
terms used to describe
and identify the flute. Many are used interchangeably,
though they are
not synonymous while others are used in an attempt compare
the flute with
something supposedly more familiar.
Most of the ancient
expedition chroniclers, ethnomusicologists and
archeologists alike
indiscriminately and interchangeably used such terms as
"flute, "flageolet,"
and "whistle." Further compounding the issue was references
to "recorders,"
"fifes," and panpipes." As a result, we have multiple-hole
"whistles"
and no-hole "flutes."
At best, the menagerie
of terms is confusing. The following definitions will
hopefully bring
us to a common reference point, using the terms in a much
more accurate manner.
One of the first
wind instruments to appear in ancient cultures was the
"whistle."
It is defined as a short instrument consisting of single tube
(or other
shape) with a mouthpiece
opening and either an open or closed end. An
opening or notch
is cut into the wall that causes blown air to vibrate and
produce sound.
Most whistles have no finger holes and predominantly produce
a single tone,
although additional tones can be produced by altering the air
flow (with a finger)
around the notch opening or end opening if there is one.
However, there
are whistles that have one or two holes. Pennywhistles and
similiar "whistles"
are actually misnamed, for they are really fipple flutes. It
should also be
noted that most modern whistles made with a ball, such as
made by the American
Whistle Company, should be called ball whistles.
Since this design
was similar to the individual pipes on an organ, there were
sometimes referred
to as "pipes," which is confusing because Native Americans
already had an
object known as the pipe. Nonetheless, a series of these pipes
or whistles sheathed
together constitutes what is known as a panpipe, such as
the ancient Hopewellian
panpipe, made of bone and copper.
When we come to
the term "flute," understand that this is a general
term
covering a variety
of instruments that basically possessed no reed device to
vibrate the air.
We must add additional terms to identify the type of flute.And
Flute actually
means: A long, usually rounded groove incised as a decorative
motif on the shaft
of a column, for example. A similar groove or furrow, as in a
pleated ruffle
of cloth or on a piece of furniture.
The "transverse"
or side-blown flute is perhaps the most common of all. It is
an instrument held
horizontally to the ground. It is a long tube with a sound
hole and multiple
finger holes. Sound is created by directing a stream of air
across the sound
hole, which strikes the far edge of the sound hole and
vibrates the air.
Originally made of bone and wood, it was later also made of
metal and glass.
The Silver or Boehm flute is a modern transverse flute as is
the smaller and
higher pitched piccolo (whose predecessor was the fife).
The "end-blown"
flutes can be found in a variety of designs. The Japanese
"shakuhachi,"
is played much like a transverse flute, but the stream of air
is
directed across
the end of the flute rather than a side opening. A "recorder"
is
also an end-blown
flute, most often described as being a tube with a large to
small tapering
bore, with a small and flat mouthpiece that directed the airflow
directly to notched
sound hole. It has eight finger holes, including one on the
bottom side. Closely
related to the recorder is the "flageolet," which differs
mainly in that
it only has six finger holes, including two on the bottom. It
should also be
noted that the flageolet was only in use from the early 16th
century to the
end of the 19th century. It should also be noted that the term
"flageolet"
can also refer to a fipple flute.
With the exception
of the generic terms "flute" and "end-blown flute,"
none of
the preceding terms
accurately identify and describe the Native American flute.
The terms that
do are "fipple flute" or "duct flute." Both
refer to design
elements, although
differing elements. A fipple flute has an edge on the far the
edge of a sound
hole that splits the air flow and directs the air into the sound
chamber. A duct
flute has a channel or flue around a plug in the tube that
directs the air
against the fipple edge of the sound hole.
Native American
flutes are not the only fipple flutes. Certain whistles,
recorders, flageolets
and even some organ pipes are fipple flutes as well.
Perhaps the most
accurate term, as used by Dr. Payne, would be "duct flutes."
Exclusively on
the most common design of the Native American flute is a block
(also referred
to as a bird, fetish, totem, effigy, saddle, and slider) that
sits on
the flute above
the channel or flue across the fipple and assists in the directing
of the airflow.
In some designs, the channel is carved directly into the block,
while in others,
the channel is carved into the body of the flute. And there is
the historic design
that places the channel in a spacer between the flute body
and the block.
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