page_title: Vessel flute
section_title: Edge-blown vessel flutes
hierarchical_section_title: Vessel flute / Types / Edge-blown vessel flutes
caption_attribution_description: English: Sindhi Cultural Musical Instrument
context_page_description: A vessel flute is a type of flute with a body which acts as a Helmholtz resonator. The body is vessel-shaped, not tube- or cone-shaped.
  Most flutes have cylindrical or conical bore. Vessel flutes have more spherical hollow bodies.
  The air in the body of a vessel flute resonates as one, with air moving alternately in and out of the vessel, and the pressure inside the vessel increasing and decreasing. This is unlike the resonance of a tube or cone of air, where air moves back and forth along the tube, with pressure increasing in part of the tube while it decreases in another.
  Blowing across the opening of empty bottle produces a basic edge-blown vessel flute. Multi-note vessel flutes include the ocarina.
  A Helmholtz resonator is unusually selective in amplifying only one frequency. Most resonators also amplify more overtones. As a result, vessel flutes have a distinctive overtoneless sound.
context_section_description: These flutes are edge-blown. They have no fipple and rely on the player's mouth to direct the air at an edge.
  Xun
  Hun
  Borrindo
  Hand flute
  Kōauau ponga ihu (a Māori gourd vessel flute played with the nose)
  Ipu ho kio kio (a similar instrument from Hawai'i)
caption: Borrindos, vessel flutes made of clay, often by children.
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