Sentence examples for duct flute from inspiring English sources
(The recorder is a European duct flute).
(The recorder is a European duct flute). Indigenous duct flutes are played throughout the Americas, but the best-known example is the Plains courting flute, made popular by contemporary performers such as Carlos Nakai.
The Pame people of Central Mexico have an unusual kind of duct flute called a mitote in which a mirliton covers the air hole, altering the instrument's tone colour.
Fipple flute, also called whistle flute, duct flute, or block flute, any of several end-blown flutes having a plug ("block," or "fipple") inside the pipe below the mouth hole, forming a flue, duct, or windway that directs the player's breath alternately above and below the sharp edge of a lateral hole.
Indigenous duct flutes are played throughout the Americas, but the best-known example is the Plains courting flute, made popular by contemporary performers such as Carlos Nakai.
These include duct, globular and transverse flutes, as well as various variations of the pan flute.
Rudy Worrell, 54, knelt on the floor and played his flute and duct-taped keyboard.
Varieties of lute, such as the long-necked damyan of Nepal and its Sikkimese relative, may be linked to a similar instrument of the Pamir Mountains, whereas a Sikkimese flute having an outside air duct (in contrast to the inside duct of a Western recorder) seems to be a unique instrument.
Like the recorder, it is a fipple, or whistle, flute i.e., one sounded by a stream of breath directed through a duct to strike the sharp edge of a hole cut in the side of the pipe.
