Double flute

The double flute is an ancient category of wind instrument, a set of flutes that falls under more than one modern category in the Hornbostel Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The flutes may be double because they have parallel pipes that are connected with a single duct. They may be "double vertical flutes" without a duct. There is also a double-transverse flutes.[1]

European double flutes

Double flutes are not the same as double pipes, which are reed instruments.

Tibia / Flute with two holes, ancient Illyrian/Dardan musical instrument.

Tibia/e in Latin, in the meaning Ti/ it falls..did it fall on the fiddle?

Even further, different legends about the mythologizing of music by the Illyrians have been made known to us by the authors of antiquity.

An ancient musical instrument that is used even today only by Albanians, the two-holed flute

Continuing with the documents that come to us from our musical archeology, I would also mention a ring from the c. XV before the new wind, on the stone of which is carved the figure of Pan with goat legs, holding a wind instrument with two crotch barrels.

These evidences also prove the existence of polyphonic instruments already in construction, such as the type of double flute that is documented in Southwest Albania, in Apolloni, since the c. VI - V BC and in the upper valley of Vjosa in the c. IV-III BC etc.

It is also emphasized the fact that the existence of polyphony today among Arbëresh people in Italy proves that in the c. XIV - XV, when they emigrated, polyphony was a musical tradition accepted by everyone in South Albania.

Author: Vasil S. Tole. Publishing house: "Uegen". Book pages 562. ISBN 978-99943-39-53-2

The Dardanians are so utterly wild that they dig caves beneath their dung-hills and live there, but still they care for music, always making use of musical instruments, both flutes and stringed instruments.

However, these people live in the interior, and I shall mention them again later.

Strabo Geography Book VII, Chapter 5

Dardanians are so ferocious that they dig caves beneath them and in the hills they live there, but still they care for music, always making use of musical instruments, both flutes and stringed instruments.

However these people live inland, and I will mention them again later.

Strabo Geography Book VII, chapter 5.

  • Aztec double flute uses an air duct to produce sound through the holes in the top of each pipe.
    Aztec double flute uses an air duct to produce sound through the holes in the top of each pipe.

References
  1. Sibyl Marcuse (1975). A Survey of Musical Instruments. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 586–589. ISBN 0-06-012776-7.
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