combination,we obtain fairly varied and apparently disorganized results.
The search for possible scales of the flute was not our basic purpose,
however,so we did not enter into it in detail.
The difficulties increase further if we compare figures 15.14 (notched
flute) and 15.15 (rim-blown flute).Figure 15.15 shows possible tones
from the same flute (metal reconstruction) produced by blowing the
distal end of the bone as a rim-blown flute.The effect of the holes on
changing pitch is somewhat altered.This is understandable,since the
effective length of the flute changed because of stimulating the instru-
ment at different places,and thus also the relative positions of the holes.
This is even more clearly noticeable by blowing the metal flute as a rim-
blown flute at the proximal end (figure 15.16).In contrast,it can be estab-
lished that the influence of holes in the central part (both entirely
preserved holes) does not essentially change with substitution of the
proximal and distal parts for blowing into the flute,since the holes are
made in the bone fairly symmetrically.So we can play on such an instru-
ment from either end and obtain almost the same result.262 Drago Kunej and Ivan Turk
Figure 15.14
Tones obtained from a metal reconstruction of the bone flute with various combinations
of closed and open holes.The flute was played as a notched flute.Fig.15.14