Everything about The Vertical Flute totally explained
The
vertical flute is either (1) a
rim-blown (notched or un-notched)
flute, (2) a
tubular duct flute, or (3) a transversely blown flute, designed to be played in an upright position. The vertical flute is contrasted with the "cross flute" (or "
transverse flute") and "
globular flute", and in stricter usage may refer only to the first category above (Marcuse 1975, 187).
Rim-blown vertical flutes include the
Jiahu flute, the
xiao, the
danso, the
kaval, the
ney, the
quena, and the
shakuhachi.
The most familiar ducted vertical flutes are the
recorder,
tin whistle, and
tabor pipe. One historical variety has a slightly tapered (decreasing diameter) bore with 6 tone holes on the top side. A dorsal thumb hole is absent. It sometimes has a small foot section with a single key. The range is a little more than two octaves and the common keynote is "D" major. The instrument is often mistaken for a
Recorder with keynote C, but. like the tin whistle and tabor pipe, relies on overblowing to change registers instead of pinching open a thumbhole, recorder style, to "cancel" the fundamental harmonic (Bessaraboff 1941, 62–63).
An unusual case of a transversely blown but vertically held flute is a special variation of the standard
flute, or, more specifically, the
Western concert flute, designed to be played in an upright position. This version uses a standard cross-blown flute embouchure bent in a "?" question mark shape. It can also be modified for one-handed players for people with disabilities.
Sources
- Bessaraboff, Nicholas. 1941. Ancient European Musical Instruments: An Organological Study of the Musical Instruments in the Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with a preface by Edwin J. Hipkiss and a foreword by Canon Francis W. Galpin. [Cambridge]: Published for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by the Harvard University Press.
- Marcuse, Sybil. 1975. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Revised edition. The Norton Library. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-00758-8.
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