How many kinds of flutes are there?

Bamboo flutes are widely spread and varied. Qu Di, Band-Aid and Dingdi are the most widely used. There are Yuping flute, Seven-hole flute, Piccolo and Shun Di.

Qu Di:

The pipe body is thick and long, the timbre is pure and mellow, the transportation is long, and the strength changes carefully. It is often played first and then combined, with three rhymes, melodious and euphemistic, and the tunes played are beautiful, exquisite and gorgeous, with a strong Jiangnan charm.

The timbre is beautiful and clear, and the timbre can be controlled freely. The techniques of calling, playing, leaning and vibrato on the flute are widely used, which requires full and even breath and minimal staccato.

Qu Di is widely popular in southern China, suitable for solo and ensemble, and it is one of the distinctive instruments in local music such as Kunqu Opera, Jiangnan bamboo silk, southern Jiangsu percussion, Chaozhou dialect flute, Chaozhou dialect gongs and drums.

Play the flute:

Bangdi is used to accompany the northern Bangzi opera. The flute body is thin and short, and its timbre is high, bright and powerful. It focuses on the use of tongue skills, such as the northern folk music Bangzi and Welcome by Feng Zicun, a famous flute player. In the performance, it shows strong local color, intense use of breath, rapid tongue playing and strong overlapping sound.

Tuning flute:

Each flute has a fixed key, and each group has 6, 7 or 12 flutes. Suitable for playing different tunes, most suitable for solo or band performance. It brings convenience to the player, and can keep the fingering unchanged and only play the flute corresponding to the music. A copper socket is installed between the blowing hole and the sound hole of the tuning flute body to adjust the distance between the blowing hole and the sound hole. This improved tuning flute can control the pitch by adjusting the length of the pipe under different climatic conditions. The fixed pitch flute will play a positive role in unifying the names of bamboo flutes in China, because it is no longer divided into Qu Di and Bangdi, but named after the pitch of three holes, which not only conforms to the traditional folk playing habits, but also solves the confusion of flute height adjustment, and brings great convenience for notation and performance. It is completely suitable for traditional six-hole flutes and various reform flutes.

Jade screen flute:

Yuping Xiao Di is made of bamboo produced in Yuping County, Guizhou Province, hence its name. Yuping Xiao Di is a famous traditional bamboo wind instrument in China, which is famous for its beautiful timbre and exquisite carving. It is the crystallization of the cultural development of local Dong, Han, Miao and Tujia nationalities in Yuping, and it has high historical, cultural and scientific value. Yuping Xiao Di is not only an excellent national musical instrument, but also an exquisite handicraft with a long history and a good reputation at home and abroad. Yuping Xiao Di, with clear rhyme and exquisite craftsmanship, is an excellent national musical instrument and the crystallization of the development and integration of Dong, Han, Miao and Tujia cultures in Yuping. Many flute artists have contributed to its development. Yuping flute and flute are made of local bamboo, with long and even bamboo joints, suitable wall thickness and solid texture. Most of the senior masters of Yuping Xiao and Di are from Yang, with Pinghai having the richest experience and the most exquisite skills. Its material selection is very strict and exquisite, and its technology is complicated and exquisite. The traditional carving of Yuping flute is quite distinctive. Fengxiang Phoenix, lifelike; Landscape flowers and birds, fresh and charming; Cursive script is smooth and quaint. The flute is pure in sound quality and mellow in tone, especially the oval flat flute, which is superior in Xiao Zhong.

Piccolo:

Also called student flute, the flute is very short and generally has no sound hole. There are two kinds of holes with and without membrane, which are used for practice or ensemble.

Bass flute:

Bass flute, as its name implies, is a kind of flute with very low sound. In recent years, with the improvement of musical instruments and the diversified development of music. There are more and more kinds of flutes. For example: long bassoon, bent bass flute and so on. The pitch of the third hole is lower than b 1, which is called "bass flute", such as big A, big G, big F, big C and so on.