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Block Flute is an English literal translation of the German Block Flote (with an umlaut over the o in flote) which primarily meant the instrument we now call Recorder. The name refers to the wooden shaped block, called a 'fipple' in England, which fits into the player's end of the bore. It is shaped to form the bottom of the windway (the top and sides are cut into the body of the instrument) and the bottom of the mouthpiece, as such.
The fipple-flutes (recorder, pennywhistle, flageolet) used a shaped windway to direct the player's air to a carved 'lip' or 'labium', where the air would vibrate the air column in the bore. Fingering the holes changes the length of the bore, changing the pitch played. Because the player's lips do not form the stream of air, fipple flutes are claimed to have less expressive capabilities than the transverse flutes, where the player controls the stream of air, directing it against the far side of a later hole in the body. While this is true as relates to volume, other performance techniques (ornamentation, time-adjustment, and to some extent articulation) allow the fipple flutes to be played with great 'affekt'.
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∙ 15y agoa block flute is something like a recorder.........................
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Is a recorder and a flute the same?
a recorder, for one thing is played like a clarinet........................................................but a blockflute is not played like a clarinet......................
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