S. Korea: A Flute Made out of Clay (a teacher makes a blue china flute)

Yonhap News (via Naver.com) ^ | 07/23/05

[TigerLikesRooster]

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A Flute Made out of Clay

[Yonhap News 2005-07-23 10:00]

Yu Yeon-shil, who pioneered a ceramic flute in S. Korea, is giving a demonstration. It was made with a technique used to make blue china.  She is a music teacher specialized in violin instruction at West Hae-nam Elementary School in S. Cholla Province.
Source: Hae-man Newspaper [Hae-nam, Yonhap news]

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[TigerLikesRooster]

I wonder how it sounds.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Do you know of any ceramic wind instruments made in any culture? It seems to me some culture in the world may have used them.

[perfect stranger]

A flute made from the ceramin or porcelain will sound very pure of tone.

[blam]

"Do you know of any ceramic wind instruments made in any culture? It seems to me some culture in the world may have used them."

Don't know of any. I think I've read of them made of bone.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #4

Yes, I know Tibetans do(or did) it.

[JimSEA]

Fascinating, it would seem to be terribly difficult to get the right sound out of it anticipating what the fired product would do.

[SunkenCiv]

Nope, not me. :') Google did though.

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From Mud to Music

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #7

Thanks for the links. It appears that many cultures had them, but no culture left a singular distinction for ceramic instruments.

[SunkenCiv]

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