Thanks for the comment. I have poor luck with the oblique orientation, although I've met some folks who could use it well. Although we do have ethnographic reports of oblique playing in the southwest (Most noticeably the famous Yuma Musician photo) there were also verticle players among the Hopi, and some Hopi at least even used a quena type notch, as did the Apache-there survives at least one apache flute with a quena notch.
I'd really like to see you playing this flute using the kaval techinque, diagonally - according to many sources this would likely to be the right technique to make sound from these instruments, not the quena-style technique, even if it is possible to use both. Great work!
Thanks for the comment. I have poor luck with the oblique orientation, although I've met some folks who could use it well. Although we do have ethnographic reports of oblique playing in the southwest (Most noticeably the famous Yuma Musician photo) there were also verticle players among the Hopi, and some Hopi at least even used a quena type notch, as did the Apache-there survives at least one apache flute with a quena notch.
BasketmakerII 8 months ago
I'd really like to see you playing this flute using the kaval techinque, diagonally - according to many sources this would likely to be the right technique to make sound from these instruments, not the quena-style technique, even if it is possible to use both. Great work!
a5urbanipa1 8 months ago