Could someone maybe tell me what type of flute this is?

Irish Flute
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Here’s the top;

the back;

and the bottom;




My dad got it for me in Texas from, I think a South American group.. I’m not sure though. He got a Bamboo Quena along with it..

It does three octaves; I’m not sure what key it’s in though. It has a very low mellow sound to it. Any help would be appreciated.. sorry if this is the wrong forum for this!

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It looks like a South American bamboo whistle. With the fixed fipple it would more properly be called a whistle instead of a flute. However, they may call them flutes in South America, I don’t know. The hole at the end of the flute is at a bamboo node. It looks like they have removed part of it with a knife to tune the flute.

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Thanks! :smiley:

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Yup, in South America everything is a flute “flauta”. There is no Spanish noun for whistle.

Doc

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By the way, a tin whistle is a type of whistle flute and a whistle flute is AKA fipple flute. There are many other types of fipple or whistle FLUTES that aren’t tin whistles or recorders. The South American instrument is one of em.

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It looks like a quena for beginners. It you sawed the fipple off the end i doubt there would be a difference. My quena has a small hole at the bottom like that as well.

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I have two items (for want of definition) that looks like that. Sadly, neither produced a proper in tune with itself scale. It made me wince trying to play anything on it. I could hardly recognise the Kesh. Or is it supposed to produce a different scale altogether?

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Yes.