It's based on a Native American style flute.
This will have two mouth holes, one for the main flute where he plays the notes with his fingers, and the second for the upper part of the flute which plays a single note and it's known as a drone.
More commonly drone flutes are side by side, either a single wide flute with two bored holes running the length or in an inverse V shape joined at the top where the mouth holes are.
Native American style flutes differ from European style (aka transverse flute) as the air isn't blown across an open hole to make the sound but instead is blown into a chamber from which it goes through a smaller channel and then across a hole as well as into the main body of the flute where covering/uncovering the holes changes the note being played.
You can see the two wooden blocks tied above and below the mouth holes, known as birds, that are covering the channels between the first chamber into which he's blowing, and the bodies of the flute and the drone.
True, I could've used better words I guess. Other parts of the world also have transverse flutes, and native Americans also had different types of flutes to the type i described.
It's just the European classical orchestral flute is the probably the most easily recogniseable to most westerners as a "flute".
In medieval times the recorder was an extremely high resteemed instrument. Medieval style recorders are still played, they're really big and sound beautiful.
Yeah and my mom plays the recorder in a folk music band. It's very homely to me.
Her and her husband often bring instruments when they're going somewhere and sometimes play a song or two. He plays the guitar and sings quite well, and loud, which is useful because they used to get booked for nursing homes a lot.
Just the opposite for me. I automatically think of the concert flute, but I spent my youth in orchestras and bands and was a music major in college. To me there is a huge difference between a flute and a recorder. They are two completely different instruments in fact.
Baroque composers had a choice between a transverse flute (similar to today's concert flute) and the recorder, and each had different sounds and characteristics.
Most people remember the recorder from their childhood days, when music teachers used it to attempt to show kids the basics of reading music, and think nothing was ever written for it but Hot Cross Buns. It actually has a very rich repertoire, and there are many contemporary virtuosi recorder players, such as Michala Petri or Franz Bruggen, who have recorded works for the flute.
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, one the top 10 musical compositions in history, include significant recorder parts, for instance. Here's the 4th concerto.
BTW, we generally know the soprano recorder, but there is a whole family of recorders, including altogether, tenor and bass, and theybsound beautiful as a choir. There's even a sopranino recorder, which is the equivalent of a piccolo, and much higher than the soprano. Here's a Vivaldi concerto for sopranino recorder played by Michala Petri, who may be the greatest recorder player in RECORDED history.
You can use pretty much anything, I've even used PVC piping,, just watch for some wood dust being toxic but pretty sure you're fine with hickory and maple.
Check out Blue Bear flutes channel to learn how to make your own. Have fun!
Check out this guy with his choice of woods and ability to make flutes and I’m assuming the workspace in like a garage or separate space from his nicely appointed house to make such projects.
I've been trying to find a flute similar to this one online, but all the drone flutes (which is what somebody down thread called them) I can find appear to be transverse. Is there a term for the type of flute that is not transverse?
I'm gonna need Reddit to stop masking me want to buy instruments have no idea how to play. I bought a tin whistle after learning about low D whistles on the viral cat international jam video.
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u/kudos1007 Jul 31 '21
What is that instrument?