Blown bottle

A blown bottle is a musical instrument that sounds when air is blown through the bottle opening .

Making music on blown bottles ( GlasBlasSing Quintett , 2009)

The underlying idea is that all tube-like structures can be blown like a flute with just one opening , including bottles . The sound is generated with a column of air made to vibrate by the air blown out . The bottles can be tuned by adding water or sand, for example, to the vessel . The smaller the cavity, the higher the tone produced. As in the case of the panpipe - which has a similar sound, among other things due to the starting noise - which, however, consists of a fixed row of tubes with which different high tones can be generated, the bottles are usually used for playing with blown bottles for the pieces required put together accordingly coordinated. Blown bottles are sometimes used by folk musicians . There are several ensembles . The blown bottle ( Engl. Blown bottle ) is in the assignment of the program slots of General MIDI assigned the number 77 (GM). Often blown bottles are beer bottles .

Example blown bottle

The beginning of the Allegro from the little night music of Mozart on the instrument "blown bottle" ( Blown bottle , GM 77):

See also

• Jug (jug)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Sound examples:
   Summer hit with a difference : " Despacito " on bottles (Bottle Boys);
   Volle Pulle Bottle Music XXL ( GlasBlasSing Quintett );
   Street musician with Mozart ("We collect money for new instruments")

Videos

• Sound sample : Call Me Maybe , Carly Rae Jepsen (played by the Bottle Boys )
• Sound example : No power to the cans (GlasBlasSing Quintett, program excerpt)

Web links

• When music is in bottles
• Empty bottle? Sounds pretty good!