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Scottish Musical Instruments - Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Pastoral Pipes, Great Highland Bagpipe, Border Pipes, Low Whistle, Scottish Smallpipes (Paperback)
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Scottish Musical Instruments - Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Pastoral Pipes, Great Highland Bagpipe, Border Pipes, Low Whistle, Scottish Smallpipes (Paperback)
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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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Books + Company
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2010 |
First published: |
September 2010 |
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Books Llc
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Books Llc
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Dimensions: |
152 x 229 x 4mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
68 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-157-57048-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-157-57048-8 |
Barcode: |
9781157570486 |
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