What is a Native American ANASAZI or PUEBLO Flute? How do they Sound? History and Comparing keys
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2023
- Here is a short overview of the history of the Anasazi flute or Pueblo flute and a couple of examples of the modified version that I make and offer.
Originally an oblique embouchure flute found in the broken flute cave in the prayer rock valley in Arizona, the artifacts found were wooden flutes that were constructed between 620-670 CE , which makes them the oldest extant flutes from the Americas made of wood.
To make playing more easy I made and developed a modified fipple flute version. but soundwise still very different from a common recorder.
Both lathe turned or handdrilled natural shaped.
I compare some different sizes and am curious which one you like the best sound or shape wise!
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I really like the sound of your modified version with the fipple.
Glad you like it :)
I've been playing Anasazi-style flutes for some time now. Yours sound wonderful! Adding the fipple makes it much easier. There's been a lot of research in the US on these instruments, and most US makers add a shakuhachi- or quena-style blowing edge. Some evidence suggests that the ancient flutes were played interdentally, which I've seen referred to as "ney-style". The scale on these flutes is very haunting, and they're great things to play!
That’s so amazing I never knew that style made it up to the US.
Several researchers in the US started researching these flutes in the early 2000s. I believe Robert Gatliff was able to make careful measurements of the original flutes and published them. Michael Allen (Coyote Oldman) was probably the first flutemaker to produce them commercially. I have several of his Anasazi-style and one "Hopi"-style. They sound great, but with more "authentic" blowing ends, they are a challenge to play. Wish I could afford one of Mr. Clement's; such a great sound!
Cool design with thumb hole and fipple. I sent this to a flute maker friend of mine. 👍🏻👍🏻
The light European Maple in A was my favorite of what you have shown in looks and sound.
I got one of the flutes in this video! The ashen one! Is beautiful 🥰🥰🙏🏽🙌🏽
Hah yes! :)
I made an Anasazi flute about 15 years ago out of bamboo. I also used the photos for measurements. I kept mine as a rim-blown flute. I like the versatility of the embouchure. Thank you for sharing. I am still loving my Romanian Kaval!
I have been playing one of these rim-blown Pueblo flutes for a few months now. There is a 3rd way to play them. I'm not a big fan of the inter-dental method because it sounds overly "airy." But, you can play it in much the same position, straight out in front of your face, with the flute almost vertical, using the technique I am about to describe. Essentially, play it like a Japanese Shakuhachi.
The "sound-hole" has a "close-edge" (the edge closest to your face), and the "far-edge". Bring your bottom lip slightly into the sound-hole so that it is just underneath the "far-edge" but not actually making contact with the flute. You can rest the close-edge in the cleft of your chin. Use a relaxed, Ney-like embouchure. You want a pin-hole of air exiting your mouth, and the bottom lip will guide that airstream UP across the far edge. It uses the same physics as a Ney or Shakuhachi; the airstream begins "inside" the flute bore, and cuts across the far edge from the inside. Took me about 2 weeks to figure out how to do it, but it results in a very clean tone, not airy at all unless you push into it on purpose.
P.S. Also helps to shave the close-edge further down the tube a bit, say a half-inch or so, which allows a more comfortable ergonomic fit with your face 😁
Yes this is the adapted and modified version most US makers make today copying Coyote Oldmans initial idea of implementing this embouchure on these :) I personally prefer the ney style embouchure as I believe that is how these were originally played. I also really like the sound. In addition the fipple version is also very good for circular breathing and generating volume etc..
@@1fujara Interesting. I haven't figured out circular breathing yet. I'm thinking I need to learn it for the Bansuri, tho.
Fascinating! I see a similarity to the gaita colombiana in both the size and finger hole placement.
Nice work, Winnie! ❤
Sounds awesome!
Thanks!
Wow / interesting ! 👍👍👍
Marvelous content as always; you should join forces with a percussionist and a string instrument player, and create an ethno-jazz trio where you play all kinds of flutes, just like Didier Malherbe in the Hadouk Trio!
Hah thank you for the motivation, yes I would like to focus on music a bit more in the future :)
Do you not see many native end blown flutes? Im curious because of the age of this one would it be more akin to the queña or something like that despite the size difference it looks and sounds more like a turkish ney.
Yes the character of these flutes is very different from other types of Native American flutes, some of the others are end blown indeed but these have more of a Ney/kaval feel to them as you noticed.
hi Winne, lovely modified ancient designs, looks and sounds lovely! i have a question i hope you want to answer or maybe you made a video on it i haven't found yet. in our Maldegem little foodforest in the park called t'smoefelpark my friend pointed out a dogwood tree about the thickness usable to make a flute, him being the biologist and project manager said it's could be harvested for such use, but before i would try doing so i just needed to know how to properly do this process, cutting in winter seems best from my limited knowledge point of view, right? then just seal the endgrain with parrafin, candle wax or lumber endgrain sealer i guess? do you hand drill after total drying process or some time before preferred final % of water content? and i saw you stack your harvest horizontally inside in a non heated area like a shed, correct? hope i'm not bothering you with this question, i also wanted to say you showed me how to make my first flute, it was far from as easy as you made it look, i'm talking about the willow overtone sheppards flute, took me a long time to find a branch without many small side branchings and took me multiple tries to make a somewhat nice sounding flute, but hey, aanhouder wint! anyhow, thanks for sharing your passion and i guess i really should maybe better ask for a book you can recommend on basic knowledge of flute making haha sorry!
Hello, harvest in late fall winter, seal ends of the wood with simple woodluge after predrilling with a very small diameter when still fresh and let sit for a couple of years afterwards ~ have fun!
I really like the look and sound of all of them but, the first 2 I like more than the others. You do some inspiring incredible work fellow flute maker. Are you going to sell them and if so how much?
Thanks, happy it can inspire! Sure I offer these for sale already a couple of years, for prices etc please contact me by email.
that is good work and beautiful instruments. They kind of are a reverse or more ''solar'' flutes compared to the caval
Thanks glad you like them, what do you mean by 'Solar'?
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So why does it make a wave sound on low notes still sounds beautiful I have a native american flute key of E I still need to learn
I think I like the Asharp best
The one in B you mean?
@@1fujarathe one in "B" is in Bb (or A sharp). I have perfect pitch but if you don't believe me you can use a tuner to check