Native Flute
- Transcript
Can you play some of the instruments for us and describe what they look like and what family they belong to? Okay. Okay. This is what it's called. Interacting it out? I don't know. This is what it's called. No carina. Global or food. And it's made out of clay. It's the size of my hand more or less and it's round. It has the shape of an amphibian creature and it's called in the Aztec language, Nishwilišti. And the sound is very low. I'm going to play for you. Okay. I'm going to play for you. Okay, what we just heard we're going to do again this time at a higher level and hopefully
it'll be usable this time. That's wonderful.
This other one is another ocarina but this is the shape of a dog and it's much smaller. This is from the Tatiwakam culture and it sounds like this. I'm going to play for you. It sounds like a dog, huh? Yes.
This is the one I'm going to play a flute now. This is from the Taltak culture and it's a long flute made out of clay. This is from the Tatiwakam culture and it's a long flute made out of clay. This is from the Tatiwakam culture. This is another flute.
This is from West Mexico and this is a double flute. It has two long tubes that are attached with four finger holes on each tube and a representation of a person on the top. This is the sound. This is from the Tatiwakam culture and this is from the Tatiwakam culture. This is from the Tatiwakam culture and this is from the Tatiwakam culture. This is a regional instrument from that time.
Are they reproductions? Reproductions were set for the two first instruments. This is another replica from the Gulf of Mexico. This is a double flute and it's a global art flute. It could be considered as an ocarina but it's stable and it has the shape of a person also. All the instruments that have representation of human beings are known as antropomorphic and the ones with shapes of animals so morphic. This is an antropomorphic flute, double flute. One of the instruments that is played by explosion is a trumpet and it was used for funerals and this is the sound. Next, it's a whistle, it's an astic whistle and it's called a wind whistle.
There are several whistles like this and they produce just sounds of a wind. They come in different shapes and they're were used also for funeral ceremonies. Some of them produce just the sound of the wind and some of the instruments produce the wind and at the end they produce a scream. So I'm going to play some of the ones that produce the wind. I'm going to play some of the ones that produce the sound of the wind.
I'm going to play some of the ones that produce the sound of the wind. It's incredible. This is another one, the same genre of instrument and it's a different texture. This is one of the ones that produce a scream at the end.
The sound of the wind. The sound of the wind. The sound of the wind. I'm going to play some of the bird calls.
Some of these instruments are very little. Some of them are the size of my finger now and they have different shapes of birds and human creatures. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds.
I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds. I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds.
I'm going to play some of them at the same time to create an environment of little birds.
- Raw Footage
- Native Flute
- Contributing Organization
- KUNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-207-956djskk
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- Description
- Program Description
- Excerpts from an interview displaying the sounds of native Mexican wind instruments.
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Genres
- Interview
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:14:31.032
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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KUNM (aka KNME-FM)
Identifier: cpb-aacip-1c8b16a816d (Filename)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Generation: Master
Duration: 01:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Native Flute,” KUNM, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 2, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-207-956djskk.
- MLA: “Native Flute.” KUNM, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 2, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-207-956djskk>.
- APA: Native Flute. Boston, MA: KUNM, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-207-956djskk