I stumbled across this on youtube. I thought it was pretty cool.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qvp412kdkfE
Does anyone know if that’s a recorder or a whistle he’s playing? It says whistle in the video info, it kind of looks and sounds like a recorder to me. I like the way it sounds though.
Bill
Looks like a recorder to me.
And the hurdy-gurdy is terribly out of tune… 
There are two guys playing wind instruments, one with a metal low whistle,
the other with the mystery instrument, I suppose. You can see them both at
the 3 minute mark. I think the disputed instrument might well be a whistle, it
looks like a Lon Dubh style whistle (which looks a bit like a recorder).
Looks like it might be a pito de llaves, or keyed recorder. Here’s a (translated) link with a picture and sound clip:
Looks like a recorder to me.
The description says whistle.
Jason
i looks it it has keys on it to me.
I don’t know of any keyed lon dubh whistles.
In the description says, among another things, “whistle” and “pito de llaves”.
“Pito de llaves” is another instrument different from the whistle. The traduction to english would be something like “keyed whistle”. However, it’s neither a whistle, nor a recorder
“Pito de llaves”:
Could the word we’re looking for be “Flageolet”?
Thanks for the replies, that’s a nice looking instrument. I had never seen or heard of one of those before.
looks like a Lon Dubh, like said before, or a Sweetheart.
The “pito de llaves” illustrated above is essentially a simple system (conoid bore, 5 or 6-keys in same or similar arrangement as on flute) piccolo body with a fipple-flute (whistle) head. It is definitely not a recorder or a flageolet as such. I believe MTGuru gave some information on the same kind of thing previously - from Northern or N.E. Europe - called there “csakan” or “czakan”. Forum search should find it.
Well, the “disputed” instrument obviously has C hole, so it won´t be a whistle. It looks and sounds like a recorder to me…
I’ve hung around Galician pipers a bit (real guys from Galicia either living here or visiting) and they do have an instrument which looks like a recorder and fingers in a way very similar to a recorder (which is the way the Galician gaita gallega fingers).
I don’t remember the Gallego name for it- I think they just call it a “flauta” or “frauta” perhaps in their dialect.
It is NOT a transverse flute (the play those too, called requinta). It is NOT an Irish whistle of any kind, or a flageolet, or anything else. It’s a Galician recorder. I call it a recorder because it fingers pretty much like a recorder- you can get all the semitones of the octave using “fork fingerings” (just as on the Gaita Gallega) and you use the thumb hole to facilitate the 2nd octave (also exactly as on the Gaita Gallega).
Anyhow all the Galician pipers play these, and they often use them where a Scottish piper would use a practice chanter- to learn and teach tunes.
Carlos Nunez plays this thing all the time on his recordings.
You guys have better eyes than I.
Sounds like a recorder to me but it does not have the cross fingering for the F that normal recorder has. I think it is a whistle with a recorder sound and a thumb hole.
I’m not sure what you mean, the cross fingering for F.
If you mean a minor 3rd, it fingers like:
x xxx xoxo (which is the same fingering as on the Galician bagpipe)
or maybe??
x xxx xoxx
This note would be F natural on a D gaita gallega or frauta, though the traditional gaitas are in C so this note would actually be E flat.
As I said, this galician recorder (which you could call frauta, pifano, requinta, these all being Gallego words for flute-like things) does all the cross-fingerings like a recorder, the minor 3rd, minor 6th, and minor 7th (which is also they way they are fingered on the gaita gallega, the Galician bagpipe) and also uses the thumbhole to facilitate playing notes in the 2nd octave (once again precisely as on the gaita gallega).
Now I just asked a Spanish guy who plays the gaita gallega and these recorders about what they should be called. He said in English he would call it a recorder, but in Spain they call them requinta, pifano, or frauta. According to him the same words are applied to transverse flutes as well as to recorders.
In spanish:
Recorder = flauta dulce
Silver flute = flauta traversa or flauta travesera
Fife = pifano (as far as I know)
The cross fingerings for playing F and F# on a descant recorder are explained here:
http://www.dolmetsch.com/fingerings.htm
Hope that helps.
In educated Castilian Spanish and probably with a Classical hat on, doubtless. But in a non-Castilian dialect/different language like Galician or Asturian or Catalan and in a folkloric, colloquial usage?