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The History of Flute

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Flue is perhaps the most ancient music instrument in the history of mankind. There are various reasons for this, when man hunted animals such as buffalo which has hollow horns or when man hunted birds like vultures who have hollow bones, another example which history books state is when man heard the voice from the bamboo jungles which were eaten by termites they produced sounds which led to the invention of flute.

As the facts go A number of flutes dating to about 40,000 to 35,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Alb region of Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe. In Indian tradition the myth of Mahabharata includes the flute which is supposed to be 5000 B.C. Japanese the flute is called fue and Chinese flute are called di or a chi flute discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at the Suizhou site, Hubei province, China. It dates from 433 BC, of the later Zhou Dynasty. The flute has been such a versatile instrument that it was discovered in almost every ancient civilization making it a universal music instrument .

The modern flute descends from inventions made in 1832 and 1847 by the Bavarian goldsmith, flute virtuoso, and industrial designer Theobald Boehm, and modified by many other instrument-makers since then. By the early 20th century and the recording era, French-style metal Boehm flutes had become the commonest type in Europe and America.

The standard concert flute is pitched in the key of C and has a range of three octaves starting from middle C (or one half-step lower, when a B foot is attached to the instrument). This means that the concert flute is one of the highest common orchestral instruments, with the exception of the piccolo, which plays an octave higher. G alto and C bass flutes are used occasionally, and are pitched a perfect fourth and an octave below the concert flute, respectively.

Flute in modern classical music has gained more importance over the years and it still remains the Man’s most cherished musical instrument.

The History of Violin

admin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:55:26 +0000

The Ravanastron(see the pic in left) belonged to a sovereign of India 5000 years before Christ and it is still prevalent in some parts of Rajasthan(an Indian state). The next indication is the history comes after a gap of around 6000 years with the emergence of Rebad or the Rabab which came from northern Indian musical instrument of the lute family and was played in classical dance orchestras and as a solo instrument with tabla (drums) and tamboura (drone-lute) from about 950. It is played by plucking using hands and was prevalent in Persia, Arabia and North Africa. The next instrument which can be considered as predecessor of violin is The Rebec which dates back to the thirteenth century (Arabian, Oriental) contains soprano, alto, bass members in family three strings, tuned in 5ths strings secured and tightened by pegs laterally inserted into peg box, no frets, body shaped like half a pear, neck and peg box are integral parts of the body, playing position at the breast or neck, bowed, held overhand, no sound post.

The modern violin as know came in the times of the renaissance, which had a large impact on all the arts, not least in the construction of instruments. The violin as it is known nowadays was built in the early 16th century. In this climate the viola and the cello also emerged.

In Italy, which escaped the war of thirty years, violin making reached an enormous upswing. Andrea Amati lived in Cremona between 1535 and 1611; he became the founder of the world’s most famous school of violin-making.At first the violin wasn’t popular, in fact, it was considered a musical instrument of low status. But slowly and gradually violin gained the reputation with well known artists acknowledging its class .

The most amazing thing about violin is that nobody actually knows who invented it. All we know that the basic ideas of violin could have originated from Middle east, Europe or Asia which makes violin the world’s most universal instrument..

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