Hand flute
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The hand flute, or handflute, is a musical instrument made out of the player's hands. It is also called a hand ocarina or hand whistle. To produce sound, the player creates a chamber of air with their
The air is blown between the thumbs into the hand.
The thumb knuckles are put on the lips.
Flute
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The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the
Hand flute
…Mexico "cupp[ed] the[ir] hands, [a]ir was blown into the cavity between the knuckles of the thumbs [that were] placed against the lips vertically". Flute Wolf-whistling…
Shinobue and other flutes
Chinese women playing flutes, from the 12th-century Song dynasty remake of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, originally by Gu Hongzhong (10th century)
Bone flute made of a goat's tibia, 11th–13th century AD.
Playing the zampoña, a Pre-Inca instrument and type of pan flute.