Asian Flutes

European Flutes

Flutes of the Americas

Flutes from Flute Traveller CD

Ron Korb Playing a First Nations Cedar Flute

All these instruments with colour photos, sound samples with descriptions in English and French are included on the Ron Korb Live DVD.

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Mayan Clay Recorder

This flute is a replica of one found in a temple during excavations at Teotihuacan near Mexico City. Like the ocarina, these flutes were made from clay and then fired in a low-fire earthenware kiln.

Mocheno

This whistle flute from Bolivia is similar to a Slovakian instrument called the Fujara. Like the bass flute, the mocheno is so long that a mouthpiece extension is needed to make it possible to reach the finger holes.

Native American Flute

This instrument is a duct flute like a recorder and is usually made out of walnut or cedar. This flute was used in courtship and is often referred to as the love flute. A young man wishing to win the heart of a woman would ask her uncle to fashion a flute for him. The holes were placed where the suitor's fingers went naturally, thus giving each flute its own unique scale.  View fingering chart (D minor pdf)
View fingering chart (pdf)

Ocarina (Chilean)

The Ocarina is a vessel flute found in many parts of the world and dates from as far back as ancient Greece. Hand-fashioned from clay and then fired in a low-fire earthenware kiln, these flutes were played in the major temples along the Andes at the time of the Spanish conquest.