Positions for the musical notes on the Flute

How to play a zampoña - lesson 1

"El condor pasa" in italian

Nice song played by the beautiful singer Gigliola Cinquetti. It is quite interesting to hear an Italian version of the song "El Condor Pasa". This composition was created by the peruvian musician Alomía Daniel Robles (Huanuco, Peru, 1871 - Lima, 1942).

"El condor pasa" has been interpreted by artists as famous as the duo Simon & Garfunkel, who bought the copyright to some street musicians in London, but years later had to return to the author.

Vlado Urlich - Promotional Video 2011 (English)

Ancient musical instruments Prehispanic Parte III

Prehispanic instruments are found in Peru thousands of years old ago and were created by diverse cultures whom expressed through them their way of understanding the world. This video shows exact replicas of a little part of the collection of 2000 instruments sound prehispaníc at National Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of Peru.

Their uses and functions, and their sound features are still subject of study because of its quantity and complexity.

These images were recorded in the archaeological Mateo Salado (1.100 AC) one of dozens of ceremonial centers in Lima Raised by ancient cultures that inhabited this valley.

This video is presented by Dimi Manga, cultural researcher, he is seen playing a pututo (trumpet made of a snail).

He tells us that we have cultures from 2500 BC, ie from about 4,500 years from now backwards. The first instrument is a flute shows quena type of ceramics from Chincha culture with an age of 1000 to 1500 years. It is a model of a flute entirely replicated chicha that is in the deposits of the National Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, History of Peru.

Then we show a very important tool is the antara pan flute or (Quechua language), currently known as sikus or bagpipe. From the Paracas, Nazca and Moche were created very used and linked to different effervescent rituals and the social life and religious ritual. The size from very small to almost a meter high.

Then introduce a fish-shaped ocarina, with holes in tail, head and spine and some side holes.

We also have replicas of the Moche culture rattles made in ceramics, with ceramic balls inside, have small holes on the sides to let out the sound. There are also geometric and anthropomorphic designs.

There are flutes crafted in animal bone. Many of these animals had a sacred character. The video shows a flute made of bone Suri (antiplane a bird, a sort of South American ostrich). Also shown is a transverse flute made of bone from a Pelican.

It is also used empty deer head, where you blows through the foramen magnum.

We can see the trumpet of Moche ceramics dating from 1500 to 200 years old.

We still have a whistle resembling the song of birds.

Then we see a kind of 4-hole ocarina also simulates the sound of birds and the body of birds.

We can see the whistling bottles. Consisting of two bottles connected by a bridge. When you pour water inside the second bottle began to produce a melody.

Ancient Pre-Inca musical instruments Parte II

This is a demonstration in Cusco about the ancient pre-Columbian instruments. We can see a bottle that by action of water flowing from one container to another by itself produce a whistle. We can also see a whistle that simulates the sound of a hummingbird. Then we see a tool that simulates the sound of a toad. Then We can see a ocarina Moche with a Owl shape which produces a beautiful melody. Then you can see bone flutes, which can be from deer, llama, alpaca and condor.

In the vidieo the musician playing a beautiful melody with the bone of condor. With the condor feather can make a flapping sound effect. After our Andean musician plays a antroporfoma Trumpet and a amorphous Trumpet and then another. And finally plays a prayer with an ocarina in the form of Puma.

Ancient Antara Nazca

The Nazca culture flourished in the Nazca region between 300 AC and 800 AC. They created the famous Nazca lines and built an impressive system of underground aqueducts that an impressive system of underground aqueducts that still function today.

The Nazca culture is widely known for its fine polychrome ceramics with representations of fruit, animals, human personages, and hybrid beings. The earliest forms and designs of this style reveal a clear continuity with, and similarity to, the Paracas style, whose features go back to the Formative Period.

This ceramic antara was made following the Ancient Nazca techniques. It is a copy from the original antara located at Peruvian Museum of archeology and anthropology.

The Clay used in its construction is the clay from the same location used by the ancient people of Nazca. This is to preserve the original sound and the original musical keys.

Measures: 18 cm x 16 cm aprox. Weight: 250 grams