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You produce the sound pushing air from the nose and modulate the pitch with the internal part of your mouth
Most Filipinos listen to Western pop or Western-influenced Filipino pop. There is little recorded folk music. Indigenous gong and bamboo music, similar to musics found elsewhere in Southeast Asia, has all but disappeared in Manila but can still be found in the countryside, particularly around festival time. Julio Inglesias is popular. Erasurehead is a popular Filipino techno band. Piccolo can be translated from Italian to mean small. Another name for the piccolo is the flautino. Aww, that is one of the cutest fun facts about flutes for you there. 8. The modern flute In this connection a paper by A. C. Haddon on Migrations of Cultures in British New Guinea contains some interesting remarks. In speaking of a tribe named Monumbo the author writes:—"The long sacred flutes … are kept carefully concealed in the men's houses; they are blown on the completion of a chief's house, at initiation, and after burial of the male dead…. From a rite that takes place it would seem that the flutes have some connection with procreation." In the same paper the author speaks of the flutes as being of different sexes. The male flute is a simple cylinder of bamboo, like an organ pipe with a piston inside, which is moved rapidly up and down to produce different notes. Apparently a peculiar form of flute this New Guinea instrument; it seems to be operated like an old fashioned churn. Again, the above writer remarks:—"The sacred flutes play an important part in many ceremonies, the sounds they emit are supposed to be the voice of the goblin himself, and the sight of them is tabued to women."
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Filipinos enjoy music and singing. Sometimes it seems that almost everyone can play an instrument or has a good singing voice. It as been said that Filipinos learn to sing before they can talk and dance before they can walk. Some men still woo their lovers by serenading them under the window. Some prisons even have their own house band and produce viral YouTube dance videos. One band at Quezon City jail, whose members change as prisoners are released and new ones come in, even has a recording contract.
The instrumental praxis joined the indigenous one, so that there was no problem to establish for example an early form of the viola da gamba or the Spanish guitar. The Spanish priests have mostly been satisfied by the fastly growing skills of the Filipino people. On the other side the indigenous sources were soon mixed with Christian habits and divine rituals nowadays know both saints, holy mother Maria as indigenous demons and angels, for example in the kagong ritual in Banaan. Another small bone flute is No. 1608 in the Dominion Museum. It is 5⅝ in. long and ⅝ in. in diameter. It has three stops, diminutive holes, and a small hole in the side and near the end. The spaces between the stops are ⅞ and 1⅛ in. No. 826 in the same Museum is 4½ in. long, 11-16 in. in diameter, and has but two stops, which are in the middle of the instrument with a space of ⅞ in. between them.The Dadabuan is an hourglass-shaped drum made of wood with a membrane made water buffalo skin. Decorated with carvings and painted, the drum is part of the Kulintang ensemble. Christmas time is one of the best moments to catch fun and give out gifts. One of the gifts you can give out to your loved ones during this time is a nose flute from the Advent Calendar. There are two separate nose flutes available in one offer, and it features a red and green color design. These will pass well as good gifts for your children or grandchildren. From the beautiful ballets of Tchaikovsky to the musical stylings of pop star Lizzo, the flute is a versatile instrument. We’ll also discover why the flute is the outlier of the woodwind family. The flute is kind of a rebel (you’ll find out why soon!) The flute has a fascinating history as well. Did you know the flute is among the oldest instruments ever invented? Or that you can play the flute with your nostrils? No, we’re not kidding. Let’s discover even more fun facts about flutes below! How much do you know about the flute? Halle Berry, Gwen Stefani, Tina Fey, Alanis Morissette and Lizzo were all burgeoning flutists in their school days. Even Leonardo da Vinci played the flute! 18. That sounds familiar