Longitudinal flute

Suling , Indonesian bamboo flute. The musician belongs to the West Javanese gamelan group SambaSunda .

A longitudinal flute is an end blown flute . Longitudinal flutes are held by the player at a more or less large angle downwards and straight ahead or occasionally a little to the side. In addition to the longitudinal flutes, there are also transverse flutes .

Examples

• Bilûr , Kurdish shepherd's flute
• recorder
• Flageolet
• Gemshorn
• Kaval , shepherd's flute in Turkey
• Ney , Arabic, Persian, Turkish flute
• Quena , South America
• Shakuhachi , Japanese bamboo flute
• Saluang , bamboo flute in Sumatra
• Tin whistle
• Xiao , China and Taiwan

Pan flutes are bundled lengthways flutes. Single-tone flutes without finger holes like the hindewhu of the Central African pygmies are considered to be the evolutionary precursors of the panpipes.

Overtone flutes are usually lengthways flutes open at both ends without finger holes. A number of tones of the natural tone series can be produced by different blowing pressure. These include the Romanian tilincă and the Norwegian seljfløote .