EI and her quena

Er, this is me playing my quena. It's sound-only and is actually two recordings in a row.

The first one is a song called Villancico Cuzqueño that I found in my World Music for Flute bookamawhatsit (it's a very good book, as is its Celtic counterpart which is to be mentioned later). It's from Peru, and is probably more suited for the quena than the second song. It's quite slow and is thus very easy to play. I played this one because it's pretty low; my recording software goes wonkissimo when I hit the higher notes. Even though this one is easier to play, I didn't play it particularly well (I breathed too much).

The second song is a Welsh songerthingy called The Cuckoo's Nest. It's very fun to play, but the recording quality is very bad (even worse than the last one) because there are plenty of high-ish notes and this one probably will make you want to poke your eardrums out with a potato peeler. I got this version of the song out of my Celtic Music for Flute book, but there are many variations on it.

My quena in real life has a really nice sound to it. I got it about a week and a half ago, and I loves it so. :D

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[mroubison]

haha! ive got the same one. is it a Novica?

[morphosale]

try seller id on ebay id (butterflyhello)

Hes has them at great price and hes flutes are very profeccional

[superniokas]

i think i could listen to this... where to find more music like that???

[itvhome]

Thank you for the pointers on the simple song.

You could avoid the recording artefacts by using a higher sampling rate. Your recording software is probably sampling at 22kHz or less. Change it to 44kHz for better quality.