Wonderful flutes made of solid jade. These flutes are well in tune, have wonderful tone and are amazing to look at and hold. 6 holes and embouchure hole with an extra hole for a vibrating membrane that adds an incredible tone color to the flute. If you don't want to use the membrane you may put a piece of tape over the hole. The flutes with the membrane are traditional to China and called Dizi. The membrane is the pith from the inside of bamboo (included). Easily attached with a little white glue or traditionally with some juice from a garlic clove.
The Irish flute uses several different bore and tonehole configurations based on historical examples to suit the needs of both large handed and small handed players. The voicing of these flutes are adjusted for ease of tone production, making these flutes very forgiving to play for the weaker or beginning player while maintaining a strong sound.6 fingerholes, unlined headjoint.
Panpipes are mustical instruments consisting of a number of pipes of graduated lengths, joined together either in the form of a bundle or more commonl in the form of a raft. The pipes lack mouthpieces and are blown across their tops, while the lower ends are stopped. In the east, the instrument appeared very early in China, where it was called p"ai-hsiao. It first served as
a sort of pitch pipe, with the 12 notes of the chromatic scale apportioned alternately to each wing of a double instrument. It thus resembled a rank of organ pipes with each side producing a whole-tone scale. According to cosmological notions underlying the arrangement, one side represented yang, the male principle, and the other yin, the female principle. The Chinese scale, being Pythagorean, that is, the result of a cycle of 5ths, had a comma between the 12th, 5th and the octave. Various efforts to fill out the octave symmetrically by expanding the cycle resulted in p'ai-hsiao of 14, 16 and 18 pipes.
The pennywhistle is a small high-pitched whistle flute, end-blown like a recorder, with six finger-holes and a small range, usually made of metal. It is also called a tin whistle. These instruments are very popular in the British Isles. They have a fipple like a recorder and are very easy to make music with, yet lend themselves to a great deal of creativity & virtuosity as well. The perfect pocket instrument.
The flute is the soprano voice of the woodwind family. Along with its little brother, the piccolo, it is the only orchestral woodwind in which the tone is not produced by a vibrating reed. Instead, the flute player holds the flute across his face (hence the name cross flute) and blows across the mouth hole near the closed or "head" end of the instrument. Flutes are ancient instruments of the whistle family. Stone-age man made whistles from any material that lay at hand-wood, clay, or bone. The earliest flutes had no finger holes and sounded only one tone. Once holes were added, the player could produce a tune. There is a pastoral quality in the sound of a solitary flute, and shepherds, in the loneliness of their long days, have always been partial to the instrument. Even today, shepherds still pass the time carving beautifully decorated flutes and recorders, on which they can play duets all by themselves. Because of the spacing of the holes, their scales sound somewhat odd to our ears.
One Handed Flute and Drum The pipe and tabor are a one-handed flute and shallow drum played at the same time. It first appeared in S. France and N. Spain in the 12th C. and is still played there today. During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance it was known in most of Western Europe. It is used mainly to accompany dances. In England it was called the "whittle and dub" and is still used to accompany Morris dances. In France the tabor is now usually replaced by a tambourin ˆ cordes (string drum), while the Basque people still use a snare drum. You can play a full scale of an octave or more using just the 3 holes of this flageolette while playing an accompaniment on the tabor drum.
The crumhorn is a wind-cap instrument, that is, a woodwind with a double reed enclosed in a cap, which takes its name from its characteristic curved or crook-shaped bottom. Since the crumhorn has a narrow cylindrical bore, opening out only at the very end, it sounds an octave lower than an instrument of similar length. Its slender tube is bent like a hook at the bottom. It has seven finger-holes and a rear thumb-hole. A double reed is fitted onto a staple which is inserted into the bore. A wooden cap is then put over teh reed, and the instrument is sounded by blowing into a hole cut into the top of the cap. The range of crumhorns is limited to a 9th. Crumhorns produce a relatively soft buzzing sound. In playing them the performer must maintain a constant level of air pressure, since any change will alter the pitch; for this reason crumhorns have an extremely limited dynamic range.
The Pibcorn (also known as the Pibgorn)name is formed from piob or pib, meaning pipe, and corn, one of many Celtic synonyms for horn or trumpet. It consisted of an elderwood pipe with six finger-holes and one thumb-hole, to which is attached an upcurved bell horn carved with serrated edges into an open-jawed shape; a mouth horn is fixed around the reed socket at the top of the pipe. The reeds were presumably cut-down single reeds like those used in comparable instruments elsewhere. It's tone is medium and lower sounding than the flute. It is remarkable for its melody, where it is played by shepherds and tends greatly to enhance the innocent delight of pastoral life.
The recorder is an easy-to-sound but hard-to-master member of the flute family. It differs from other woodwind instruments in that the player blows through a whistle-type mouthpiece. The recorder was originally made from one piece of wood. Further versions came in three part sections that fit tightly together. The upper part contains the mouthpiece, which can be adjusted to tune the instrument. Pushing the mouthpiece in raises the pitch; pulling it out lowers the pitch. The middle section contains six small holes on top and a hole for the thumb at the back. The small bottom section, the foot-joint, turns so that its one hole can be reached easily by the player's little finger. Four fingers of each hand are used in playing; the little finger of the left hand has nothing to do. The thumb of the right hand serves as the main support for the instrument. The recorder had a bird like sound quality to it that made it extremely useful in the Renaissance period of music.
Panpipes are mustical instruments consisting of a number of pipes of graduated lengths, joined together either in the form of a bundle or more commonl in the form of a raft. The pipes lack mouthpieces and are blown across their tops, while the lower ends are stopped. In the east, the instrument appeared very early in China, where it was called p"ai-hsiao. It first served as
a sort of pitch pipe, with the 12 notes of the chromatic scale apportioned alternately to each wing of a double instrument. It thus resembled a rank of organ pipes with each side producing a whole-tone scale. According to cosmological notions underlying the arrangement, one side represented yang, the male principle, and the other yin, the female principle. The Chinese scale, being Pythagorean, that is, the result of a cycle of 5ths, had a comma between the 12th, 5th and the octave. Various efforts to fill out the octave symmetrically by expanding the cycle resulted in p'ai-hsiao of 14, 16 and 18 pipes.
The crumhorn is a wind-cap instrument, that is, a woodwind with a double reed enclosed in a cap, which takes its name from its characteristic curved or crook-shaped bottom. Since the crumhorn has a narrow cylindrical bore, opening out only at the very end, it sounds an octave lower than an instrument of similar length. Its slender tube is bent like a hook at the bottom. It has seven finger-holes and a rear thumb-hole. A double reed is fitted onto a staple which is inserted into the bore. A wooden cap is then put over teh reed, and the instrument is sounded by blowing into a hole cut into the top of the cap. The range of crumhorns is limited to a 9th. Crumhorns produce a relatively soft buzzing sound. In playing them the performer must maintain a constant level of air pressure, since any change will alter the pitch; for this reason crumhorns have an extremely limited dynamic range.
The Pibcorn (also known as the Pibgorn)name is formed from piob or pib, meaning pipe, and corn, one of many Celtic synonyms for horn or trumpet. It consisted of an elderwood pipe with six finger-holes and one thumb-hole, to which is attached an upcurved bell horn carved with serrated edges into an open-jawed shape; a mouth horn is fixed around the reed socket at the top of the pipe. The reeds were presumably cut-down single reeds like those used in comparable instruments elsewhere. It's tone is medium and lower sounding than the flute. It is remarkable for its melody, where it is played by shepherds and tends greatly to enhance the innocent delight of pastoral life.
The recorder is an easy-to-sound but hard-to-master member of the flute family. It differs from other woodwind instruments in that the player blows through a whistle-type mouthpiece. The recorder was originally made from one piece of wood. Further versions came in three part sections that fit tightly together. The upper part contains the mouthpiece, which can be adjusted to tune the instrument. Pushing the mouthpiece in raises the pitch; pulling it out lowers the pitch. The middle section contains six small holes on top and a hole for the thumb at the back. The small bottom section, the foot-joint, turns so that its one hole can be reached easily by the player's little finger. Four fingers of each hand are used in playing; the little finger of the left hand has nothing to do. The thumb of the right hand serves as the main support for the instrument. The recorder had a bird like sound quality to it that made it extremely useful in the Renaissance period of music. 
