Saturday, May 17, 2008

Flute

Well if anyone thought summer is here after all warm days - today it has been snowing all day. Just a few degrees above zero. Summer seems far away now.
But one can always relax by making some music. I have become rather facsinated by different kinds of flutes. I am quite fond of the beautiful native american flutes. Have been playing on one for some time now, and it is easier than the chinese hulusi I also use.
Found some forums on the Internet but not yet anyone here in (north) Sweden who plays it.

The natural tone scale of those flutes (pentatonic mode 1, meaning 1½-1-1-1½-1 tone distances) is very harmonic and nice. Those flute invite to improvisation. But you can of course play diatonic music as well on them.
Maybe I will put some little tune here in due time.
Where do you get a native american flute? Mine comes from High Spirit. Good flutes, reasonable prices. Just ordered two more.

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