534a4: Globular flute

Globular flutes are also called vessel flutes because their body shape is not tubular, but made of, or made like, a vessel in a globular shape.

The blow hole can be a sharp-edge type of the end-blown flute or a whistle mouthpiece as in the whistle flute.

Some produce only one note like a simple referee whistle, others, like the ocarina, have finger holes and play different pitches.

• Ocm module: Globular flute
• In ocm module: Aerophones
• In ocm module: Musical instruments
• In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
• In bookshelf: Anthropology

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