Scottish Musical Instruments - Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Pastoral Pipes, Great Highland Bagpipe, Border Pipes, Low Whistle, Scottish Smallpipes (Paperback)

Chapters: Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Pastoral Pipes, Great Highland Bagpipe, Border Pipes, Low Whistle, Scottish Smallpipes, Carnyx, Irish Flute, Cauld Wind Pipes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute flageolet, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and other woodwind instruments. A tin whistle player is called a tin whistler or whistler. The tin whistle is closely associated with Celtic music. The penny whistle in its modern form stems from a wider family of fipple flutes that have been seen many forms and cultures throughout the world. In Europe such instruments that have a long and distinguished history and take various forms; most widely known of these are the recorder, tin whistle, Flabiol, Txistu and tabor pipe. Almost all primitive cultures had a type of fipple flute and is most likely the first pitched flute-type instrument in existence. The oldest example includes of a Neanderthal fipple flute from Slovenia dates from 53 000-81 000 B.C., a German flute from 35 000 years ago, and flute made from sheeps bone in West Yorkshire dating to the Iron Age. Written sources that describe a fipple-type flute include the Roman and Greek aulos and tibia. In the early Middle Ages peoples of northern Europe were playing the instrument as seen in 3rd-century British bone flutes, and Irish Brehon Law describes flute like instrument. By the 12th century Italian flutes came in a variety of sizes, and fragments of 12th-century Norman bone whistles have been found in Ireland, and an intact 14 cm Tusculum clay whistle from the 14th century ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=42380

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Imprint:	Books + Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Editors:	Books Llc
Creators:	Books Llc
Dimensions:	152 x 229 x 4mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	68
ISBN-13:	978-1-157-57048-6
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-157-57048-8
Barcode:	9781157570486

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