Someone gave this to me several years ago. I think it’s worth around $100. I don’t play it and I would like to pass it on to someone who would like it. It’s attractively figured rosewood with a bone top, so the embouchure notch is bone. It has nylon binds and it plays in the key of G. So, I would like to give it away. If you are interested in receiving it, please send me an e-mail telling me why I should give it to you. 
It has been fun reading the e-mails that people have sent to me and all are deserving, but there are a couple that stand out. I will let you know when I’ve made a decision. There’s still time to send me an e-mail (probably until tomorrow evening).
Low G or high G? I’m figuring that it’s a high G, but I can’t play high G whistles.
JP
No, quenas are not normally high G, but low (alto) G.
I’d’ve applied, but didn’t really have a chance.
I had a quena before. They’re real biahtches to play. The way you have to shape your mouth is weird, and I don’t have the patience to develop the emboucher properly when a whistle doesn’t take any effort at all. But the sound (of the quena) is gorgeous.
I find the quena easier than transverse flute, but with the full, round, sound.
Oh, that’s odd. I find flute (and piccolo) much easier than quena. I used to play the clarinet, though. But I don’t think that really helps with flute.
I find the quena considerably harder (because I have heard them played well and I sure can’t playe it well) than the flute or the shakuhachi.
Maybe it’s my piccolo but that thing is a pain in the patoot to get a good sound out of.
Well, part of why I find it easier, is the physical demands of holding an instrument off to one side are greater than those of holding one vertically.
Not if you lean on something.
Sent you a PM Jessie
Mark V.
I have received about 10-12 requests for this quena and many are compelling. There is one that stands out so far, but I am going to read them all again. I have to go out for the day, and I will let people know when I’ve made a decision.
I picked up one a couple months back. It is a little strange how you hold your mouth. Particularly to flute players I imagine. The thumb hole is a bit strange too. It’s hard to go much into the second octave without half holing it, but completely uncovering it doesn’t seem to work too well either. Keeping it closed seems to be out too. Trying to get some upper range with it closed seems to get some wierd harmonics going. I’ve been thinking about fashioning one in pvc with hopes it will be a bit more playable. The bore is sorta strange, at least on mine. Insted of conical, it seems to step down a bit at a time, till the end , where it’s almost plugged except for a hole about half the size of the bore.
At least it is pretty. And smells nice too.
I was thinking of trying for this one, but I already have a bamboo quena, plus a PVC that I made myself ( the very first Busman…), so I held back. These are a LOT of fun to play and have a really beautiful, haunting sound.
Give me another day or so, please.
I have chosen a recipient: a very musically driven person on a “tight student budget.”
Thanks for the requests.
Looks as though you have made a wise choice.
Thanks for the offer and of course, for considering all.
As a consolation to all who wanted this instrument, here’s an interesting link:
http://www.fippless.org/Quena/
Make your own! It is really easy, requiring only a piece of PVC pipe, hacksaw, some files, drills sandpaper and the resulting Quena plays beautifully.
Hopefully the recipient will keep us posted on his/her progress with this instrument.