Clay flute Music -Aztec, Maya Native American-

Spectral sonorous analysis of experimental models.

The execution of experimental organology exercises are not known in the traditional Archeology, because the analysis using physical replicas and mathematical models are not used, which are used in the design and evaluation process of engineering and scientific investigations. Neither has been of interest to explore the ancient acoustical attributes, because not a single aerophone rescued and stored in national museums has ever been to travel to a good laboratory with metrology equipment nor to other places where they could be played in the past to analyze their sonorous properties in controlled situation or in ancient spaces and contexts. The author's experimental models have done so, at times finding administration difficulties, because guards say that "it is not permitted to play musical instruments in the archaeological sites". It occurred to some administrators of the ancient national patrimony to reinstall this prohibition initially imposed during the conquest and colonization by others who also depreciate the Mexican sonorous artifacts and their sounds.

As it has not been possible to have access to the sonorous artifacts in museums and collections the analysis can only be done using experimental models. With experimental models it has been proved that the basic operation of these aerophones is very simple, because they have an air duct, but they can produce complex sounds if the input air flow is complex. Some of then have tonal holes, but their fundamental F0 operation is altered a very little. Greater alteration comes with greater input air and pressure or by forming another resonator with the hands around the resonator tube output, changing its size and output aperture.

There is no use in applying views of musical analysis to these sonorous artifacts, because their sounds are not musical in the modern occidental sense, even if some investigators have tried to apply musical concepts to these sounds like when they say that they are tuned to a certain musical note and that their scales are very rudimentary. It only take to see the face expression of an actual musician when he listen to see how far they are with their imported modern mentality and musical uses.

It has been mentioned that the sounds of those aerophones can be guttural and is for that reason that they have been compared with the modern reed interments, but no signal analysis has been provided to show this similarity. It appears the performed studies have been only by ear without using acoustical tools or signal analysis. It is not intended to underestimate our aural system. A well trained ear is excellent to analyze audible sounds in a very wide band of frequencies an amplitudes, but the musical language is poor in describing complex sounds like those produced by the artifacts in our case and of some ancient musical instruments.

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[Max0Inq]

Is it possible to burn clay at home?

[21cascas21]

NO really it would to dangerous.... You need more heat for longer time...

Sorry

[kathrynhansen1]

Your ceramics flutes are wonderful.I am a ceramic teacher at Calabasas high in California. I have been teaching how to make ceramic flutes, and I have a problem with the mouth piece, they do not whistle clearly, please email me back, please teach me, so I CAN TEACH THE STUDENTS WELL

[21cascas21]

Well I'm in Philadelphia.....

[ThInTrM]

bigmandrel: Or take the Mexica Movement, who goes even further than most Chicano nationalists and wants anyone of European descent living in North America deported back to Europe.

Do apologize for your assumption that anyone who speaks to you has a lesser degree of education, and apologize for your egotistic patronizing while you're at it. It's very unbecoming of you.

[ThInTrM]

bigmandrel: Unlike your implication that I lack a GED simply because I speak of a movement you wrongly believe does not exist, there *IS* such a thing as a Chicano independence movement, and no, I was not referring to the Chicano Movement of the 1960s/1970s.

"Chicano nationalist movement" might be a better name than "Chicano independence movement," but it is just another name for the same set of ideas--ideas which very much exist and have been expressed by groups in recent times.

[DaniaAlexandraOliva]

The sound's coming from your instrument's are very good ,love the neckless and the smaller flute .

[MEXIKAYOTL2012]

do you sell them????

[pqwilrj]

YES! That death whistle is epic.

[Tohil9]

Good job in refering to us as Native Americans, cause that what we are, even thounh we prefer the term Naturales of this land, wich means people that belong to this continent.

[lureyes1]

hey i have that shirt...i got it in esquipulas...nice vid...