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I know nomenclature can be somewhat arbitrary, but I’ve heard Kaval, Ney, and the California Native American flutes called “rim blown flutes” and the Quena and Shakuhachi called “notch flutes”.
The Xiao is cool because it has a round blow-hole and stopped end like a transverse flute, but with the blow-hole moved to the top corner. It seems to me to be sort of halfway b...
Dansant — Contact me directly at steve[dot]bliven[at]comcast[dot]net so we can work out how to get the recording to you.
Best wishes.
Steve
you are right, the patterns for the bottom hand are very much like on a Kaval, the top hand has very different patterns, and not in any way I have come across on another wind instrument. But they are quite logical, and I am getting used to this, and starting to transfer tunes I know on low whistle/flute with growing ease. Kaval and Xiao are both end-blown flutes, but I find t...
According to this post back in 2020, it appears that Olive Le Bas was attempting to keep the business going after David Le Bas died, but there doesn’t seem to be much available information as to what’s become of the Le Bas Company.
That’s really cool Hans!
The Xiao fingering is familiar with the bottom hand and strange in the top hand, due to me playing Kaval ages ago.