Flute
The slide whistle , even Lotus flute, stamp flute , drawing flute , English slide whistle swanee, whistle or piston whistle , French flute à coulisse is a wind instrument made of wood , metal or plastic . This gedackte beak flute is changed by operating a tie rod in their pitch, while a piston moves in a cylinder. The way of blowing is basically identical to that of a recorder .
Style of play
By pulling or pushing the rod, the length of the resonance tube is varied, whereby the pitch changes accordingly. By pulling out the tension rod, the resonance space is enlarged. A shorter resonance length produces a higher pitch than a longer one. With this technique, glissandi are also possible when playing the flute, as with the trombone .
use
The glissando effect of the falling pitch (from high to low) is often used in cartoons and slapstick films as film music to accompany when an object falls. Similarly, an ascending glissando is used when something flies upwards.
With a little practice, musicians can also play entire melodies on the instrument - as the jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong demonstrated on several recordings.
Even Maurice Ravel put the power on several occasions, for example in L'enfant et les sortilèges .
In contemporary music the instrument can be found among others with György Ligeti (violin concerto) and Karlheinz Stockhausen .
Others
The confectionery manufacturer Chupa Chups makes a lollipop in the shape of a piston flute.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Piston flutes in the Whistlemuseum ( Memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Thomas Brothers, Thomas David Brothers: Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism . WW Norton & Company, February 3, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4 , p. 99 (accessed November 23, 2014).
- ^ Theo Hirsbrunner: Maurice Ravel . Laaber-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 978-3-89007-143-5 , p. 308 (accessed November 23, 2014).
- ^ György Ligeti: a monograph . Atlantis Musikbuch, 1993, ISBN 978-3-254-00184-9 , p. 212 (accessed November 23, 2014).
- ↑ Karlheinz Stockhausen: Texts on Music, 1970-1977: Volume 4: Work introductions, electronic music, world music, suggestions and standpoints, on the work of others . DuMont, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7701-1078-0 , p. 169 (accessed November 23, 2014).
- ↑ http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/whistle_pops