Bocarina Professional Blk Nose Flute - Black

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Most Filipinos listen to Western pop or Western-influenced Filipino pop. There is little recorded folk music. Indigenous gong and bamboo music, similar to musics found elsewhere in Southeast Asia, has all but disappeared in Manila but can still be found in the countryside, particularly around festival time. Julio Inglesias is popular. Erasurehead is a popular Filipino techno band. The flute can be found in many ancient cultures. The Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and others, all developed versions of the flute independently from one another. Obviously the desire to make music is universal! Different cultures have created different flutes around the world 3. What’s that flute made of?

A variation, the 'Fangufangu' nose flute of the island of Tonga is made with intact node walls at both ends of the bamboo tube, with the nostril holes on the side in front of the nodes (along with side finger holes) and a hole in the middle of the tube, acting as a vent hole, and taking the place of the open distal end. Thus the 'Fangufangu' can be played from either end, and the disposition of the fingerholes differ from node to vent hole so two alternating scales can be played, but only one scale at a time. The largest item in the collection is a spectacular 11m-high totem pole carved from a single red cedar on Canada’s Haida Gwaii islands in 1882. At its summit, a frog-eating bear looks out across the half-light of the museum, still savage-toothed and wild-eyed nearly 135 years after being carved. Fig. 68 shows two koauau in the Hastings Museum, A being a wooden specimen, and B of human bone.. The former has lost two of its countersunk shell circlets. B was obtained in the Rotorua district. Specimen A is 7¼ in. in length. See p. 241.

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As a rule, when flutes were made of human bone, the bones so used were those of enemies. After the slaughter of Marion Du Fresne and his companions, the natives utilised some of their bones where-from to fashion flutes and other objects. Here end Mr. White's notes. Baxtresser began playing flute at the age of 9 and attended Julliard. Jeanne Baxtresser is known as the greatest female flutist 21. That flute is worth how much?

Dimensions: height: 59 centimeters; diameter (membrane): 19 centimeters. The gandang ia cylindrical drum made of wood with a membrane made of water buffalo skin on each side. Decorated with 'okiran' motives and painted, the drum is part of the Kulintang ensemble. ~ Occasionally, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, show performances by the Ballet Philippines, the Philippine Madrigal Singers, and the Bayanihan Dance Troupe. World-renowned artists Lea Salonga and Cecile Licad, from time to time, give performances in big concert halls in Manila. The Center of Arts in San Antonio (CASA) in San Miguel, Zambales features violinist Alfonso “Coke” Bolipata and his Pundaquit talents. Other groups that showcase the Filipino performing talents are Repertory Philippines, the Loboc Children’s Choir, and the Amazing Philippines Theatre. [Source: Philippines Department of Tourism] To play a nose flute, you don’t need any skills but follow simple instructions, and you are good. Nose flutes are not complicated. They don’t require special fingering techniques, nor are they plagued by any form of complication that usually bedevils other wind instruments. Some tribes made flutes from the arm and leg bones of their own dead. We have seen that, when a woman was in labour, a tohunga or her grandfather played upon such a flute until the child was born. A tohunga (priest) would also play such a flute when a child was ill, or when the child was in any pain or distress, according to Mr. White, as when cutting its teeth. Also when the child cried without any apparent cause. The idea in the native mind was that such flutes being made of bones of departed ancestors acted as a medium between the living and the gods (from whom man is descended). Ingo Stoevesandt wrote in in his blog on music in Southeast Asia: “It was in 1521 when the first Spanish missionaries arrived. Only few decades later, around 1600, churches and schools have been installed and the secular musical tradition of Spain was taught. We can assume that mainly only such music was taught as it was used in the Christian liturgia, for example the Gregorian solo chant and the first roots of polyphony from the canto organo and gymel. [Source: Ingo Stoevesandt ]Kulintang – set of eight tuned gongs placed horizontally in an ornate frame, tuned pentatonic scale|pentatonically. Filipinos like karaoke. Karaoke are found in jeepneys and even on some airlines. According to humanbreeds.com: “83 percent of the Filipino women and 72 percent of the Filipino men dream about becoming a famous singer… well, i just made these statistics up, but the actual numbers are probably not so far away from those fake statistics. Filipinos just love singing, not only in the shower, but also on the streets (I’ve seen it happen countless times), in the living room, alone or with friends or of course in the extended and so frequently happening Karaoke sessions. [Source: humanbreeds.com, February 7, 2014] Filipino Artists and Musical Talent In the Philippines, the nose flute ( pitung ilong in Tagalog), or the kalaleng of the northern Bontok people ( tongali among the Kalinga people), is played with the extreme forward edge of the right or left nostril. Because the kalaleng is long and has a narrow internal diameter, it is possible to play different harmonics through overblowing—even with the rather weak airflow from one nostril. Thus, this nose flute can play notes in a range of two and a half octaves. Finger holes in the side of the bamboo tube change the operating length, giving various scales. Players plug the other nostril to increase the force of their breath through the flute. [ citation needed] Taiwan [ edit ] Bamboo nose flute played by Paiwan people Historically in New Zealand, the Māori carved nguru from wood, the stem of a gourd and whale's teeth. Nguru were often adorned with very elaborate carvings, befitting what is considered a sacred object. Although Nguru are commonly known as nose flutes, it is only the smaller instruments that can be played with the nose, more commonly Nguru are played with the mouth. Here’s one of the coolest flute facts. The Hindu deity Krishna is always depicted holding or playing a bamboo flute.

For the instrument played using the nose and mouth cavity, see nose whistle. Fijian nose flute from 1838, MHNT collection Small musical instrument A rosewood nose whistle. The player puts one's nose on the upper hole. The air is directed towards the lower edge, where the open mouth makes the sound. Sound of nose whistle Halle Berry, Gwen Stefani, Tina Fey, Alanis Morissette and Lizzo were all burgeoning flutists in their school days. Even Leonardo da Vinci played the flute! 18. That sounds familiar

The inventor of the modern concert flute is Munich-born Theobald Böhm. He is credited for improving the design and fingering system in the mid-1800s. Philippine traditional musical instruments are commonly grouped into four categories: aerophones, chordophones, membranophones, and idiophones. [1] [2] Aerophones [ edit ] There is one element of uncertainty about this koauau flute. Two reliable persons have stated that they saw natives using it as a nose flute, but most authorities agree that it was applied to the mouth. Mr. John White states that the player blew into one end, and continues—"An adept player used the koauau as a nose flute, but others who were not so clever used it as a mouth flute." The flute has been around for millenia. Some say up to 4,000 years! A flute can be classified as any long tube that you can blow into and create a sound.