QUENA - Musical Instruments aboriginess and ethnic

Instrument aerophone, vertical flute without aeroconducto with escotadura as "U" or "V" in the distal end, built in cane or bone about 30 to 40 cm long. It has commonly 6 holes in the wall and one in the previous post (this cover with your thumb and is the spokesperson). The pitch obviously depends upon the length of the instrument although usually constructed with the basic tune in A3. In pre-Columbian times it is also built on clay or stone, ceramic provides a sound very special instrument, can be seen in the photo

The Quena is undoubtedly the most important instrument of wind within the Andean folk music. At present Quena is used in three specific sectors. The first and oldest is like social flute used in festivals with bands flutists, religious or magical, and in the daily work for the care of herds. In the second Quena is used as a flute soloist or accompanying groups Creole or electric bands, as well as symphony orchestras. E1 last sector is very personal to be limited to the same people as soloists for entertainment. At maximum occur orquestinas camera but remain at the level of pure amateurs. And is that the joy he feels when the musician plays the quena can only be understood to touch yourself.

It can be found mainly in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Can be found Quenas made bamboo, pumpkin, bone flame or pelican, metal, wood, clay, stone, plastic and even human tibia.
I would encourage anyone who deeper into the study of Quena, who knows crossing the threshold to be vetoed us for many years now. To know return to the simple things, to the ground. To understand that hands are not going to be more than himself, and whose door to communicate with us in the form of Quena thus acquires magical.
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In some places still virgin land, where man is an element inserted in microcosm, in their hours of rest after chasing monkeys, armadillos or tigrillos, or after harvest cassava take their Quena and with it sound in the wind. For the Quenas constructed using all kinds of rods, wood, bones of birds, monkeys, crabs, tigers and depending on the use to be giving them put their names, having to use Quenas night, daytime use, rest, tests, parties, sorrows, funerals, struggles ...

It is a fact that is used mainly by men, but due to the patriarchal societies of these is "normal" that is the case, and is not ruled out their use sex as a warning or claim of availability.
There is still the simplicity of the world has not been, nevertheless, troubled by wires and buttons. Hence Quena can not be different, it has no need to "evolve" complicate keys with his technique, it has already reached the limit itself, which is well above other instruments.
Anyone who does not understand this you can make the most of it and of itself, because it is "wind made sound, the soul that escapes from their holes."
So here we try to deepen far means permit, inciting those interested in further research and refine his technique with Quena.