Flute known as fipple flutes. The fipple gives the instrument a distinct timbre which is different from non-fipple flutes and makes the instrument easier to play, but takes a degree of control away from the musician. Another division is between side-blown (or transverse) flutes, such as the Western concert flute, piccolo, fife, dizi and bansuri; and end-blown flutes, such as the ney, xiao, kaval, danso, shakuhachi, Anasazi flute and quena. The player of a side-blown flute uses a hole on the side of the tube to produce a tone, instead of blowing on an end of the tube. End-blown flutes should
Xindi (instrument) which complements the other orchestral instruments better. All these reasons contribute to why its use for solo performance is so restricted and rare. Xindi (instrument) The xindi (; literally "new flute") is a Chinese musical instrument. A 20th-century derivative of the ancient "dizi" (bamboo transverse flute), the "xindi" is western influenced, fully chromatic, and usually lacks the dizi's distinctive "di mo", or buzzing membrane. The xindi is also known as the 11-hole di (十一孔笛). Its design is western influenced and based on the principal of equal temperament. It first appeared in the early 1930s. It was designed and produced by