How to play the flute

How to play the transverse flute:

1. Lips closed naturally, hold both ends of the flute with both hands, hold the head of the flute in your left hand, hold the end of the flute in your right hand, place the blowhole under your lips, and blow into the blowhole.

2. When the breath rushes out, only a small gap is allowed for the breath to pass through, and it becomes a column of air blowing diagonally down the hole. The principle is the same as blowing a pen loss containing a set.

3, in order to make the breath rushed out of the two lips will not be rushed open, resulting in the breath scattered, the cheek muscles must be strong, to ensure that the loss of breath holding a very small exit.

4, blowing out the sound requirements of pure, to avoid the inclusion of gas sound loss contained.

5, to practice in front of the mirror, how to align the air holes, so that the pronunciation of the rapid air want to be in the right position, not biased, so that all the breath into the flute sound.

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The flute is the oldest Han Chinese musical instrument found so far, but also the most representative of the Han Chinese musical instruments are the most national characteristics of the wind instrument. Chinese traditional music often mu sedan chair with one of the horizontal blowing woodwind instruments, Chinese bamboo flute, generally divided into the southern qu flute, the northern bang flute and between the two in the Xunxun empty wanton tone flute. The range is generally up to two octaves more than two.

The flute is often used in Chinese folk music, opera, Chinese folk orchestra, Western symphony orchestra and modern music, is one of the representative instruments of Chinese music. In folk orchestras, the flute is a pivotal wind instrument and is treated as a representative of folk wind music.

Most flutes are made of bamboo, but there are also stone flutes, jade flutes and flutes made of mahogany, and bone flutes in ancient times. However, the best material for making flutes is still bamboo, because bamboo flutes have better sound effects and are cheaper to make.

The Chinese flute has a long history, dating back to the Neolithic period. At that time the forefathers lit bonfires, set up prey, around the captured prey while eating and singing and dancing, and the use of flying birds shin bone drilling and blowing (with the sound of trapping prey and passing signals), but also Xunkong wantonly gave birth to the excavated in China's oldest musical instrument - bone flute.

After the Han Dynasty, the horizontal blowing flute has been in the court, the army's drums and music occupy a very important position mu sedan chair. This incident reminds people that the development of the Chinese flute has already left its early primitive form, and has become more reasonable and more perfect in terms of meter, shape, etc., and has become more and more cooperative and coordinated with other instruments in the orchestra.

On the portrait bricks of the Northern and Southern Dynasties unearthed in Deng County, Henan Province, we can clearly see the historical image of the drum and flute band coordinating their playing. The direction and angle of the player's flute, and the posture of the left and right hands are exactly the same as in modern flute playing.