Anasazi Flute

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Here is a short Anasazi flute improvisation I did the other day. I have had my flute for like 2 weeks now. It's a rim-blown flute, which makes it pretty darn hard to get a good sound out of (after hours and hours of practice, I can finally get the full range of the flute with out loosing the sound quality). My flute is a PVC version (key of A) I bought from Mark Purtill: http://anasazidream.blogspot.com/. My flute cost me about $50. I have seen a beautiful high quality wood versions on the net for about $600(!!!) • The scale is very interesting as well: A, B, C, C#, E, F#, G#, A. It's like a 1600 year old jazz scale! :-) • (From an article on Wikipedia, which I also contributed to!) • The Anasazi flute is the name of a pre-historic end-blown flute revived and replicated today from findings at a massive cave in Prayer Rock Valley in Arizona, USA by an archaeological expedition led by Earl H. Morris in 1931. The team excavated 15 caves and the largest amongst these had 16 dwellings and many artifacts including several wooden flutes, which gave the site its name, the Broken Flute Cave. • The flutes found in the cave was dated between 620 and 670 A.D. They were all made of Box Elder, have 6 finger holes and are end-blown. It is similar in many respects to a Hopi flute, which has only five finger holes. • The Anasazi flute has in recent years been reproduced and restored to the catalog of World flutes. While difficult to play in many respects, it has a rich, warm voice that spans a little over one and a half octaves.

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