The Quena flute is one of South America and used in countries like Peru, Bolivia , Argentina, Chile or Ecuador. It is the most important Andean folk music. This instrument was played and the Inca empire and the first historical data we found in a chronicle of the conquest of the Inca empire, which states: "when the war will take many horns, drums, flutes and other instruments." English chroniclers in colonial times expressed great shadow to the technical perfection that had reached the Piru Indians in the construction of flutes.
Currently, the Quena is used in celebrations, in religious ceremonies in Creole music groups, symphony orchestras, etc. It is also an instrument played by people worldwide looking for pure entertainment only.
La Quena currently has 7 holes, but from its origins have been the 4 to 7 holes. It is a notched vertical flute, with some similarities to Japanese shakuhachi. The materials used for construction are cane, bone, wood, clay, etc.
Depending on their size and pitch, Quena may receive several names. Namely, shilo , pingollo , kenali , lawata , mahala , flute, pinkillo , Chayne , qquenacho , choquelas , kena pusi, breast flute, bugle , Adam's apple, Phusipia , phalawata , flute chaqallo , ph ' alaata , puli puli , pusippiataica , St. Borga flute, recorder watermelon, mollo , hilawata , pink 'ollo , machu flute, etc, ranging from 15 centimeters to 120 centimeters, although the most popular and is used to measure between 36 and 38 inches, called Quena in A, but is actually in the key of G major.
A special feature of this instrument is the notch, notch or chanfle , of \u200b\u200bwhich there are different types: U, C, V, rectum, etc.
There are numerous fables and legends with this instrument. The best known is the " Manchai Puitu ."
There are various versions of the legend, but all tell the story of a love between a man and a woman in which, after various vicissitudes, the woman dies and the man makes a Quena with the tibia of the deceased, providing that horrible instrument sounds heartbreaking.
In both versions, the man is an Indian Chayanta and she a young Indian woman who attended Or is a young Peruvian boy surnamed Camporeal son of a English and an Indian girl and she a descendant of the conquerors, or he is the son of Lord of the region of Marateca and call it a Zenaguet india , etc. He
Chayanta Indian, in his last days he goes mad and goes wandering around the city. Every time I was a pitcher, got the Quena and sang a song he had composed to remember their beloved. That song
read:
That land has buried
A cruel that it was my only chance? Lozana
I left like a flower. Some
perhaps evil wind has taken? I
their wake,
I looking for his shadow.
is she who gives me his shadow on the road
is just the curtain of my tears ?
's go dreaming, and I kiss my dream.
In my distress, she comes and talks to me.
In my hours of confusion, see:
light on a flight down to me. Outside
best to kill me? Perhaps my death
offended?
With the death could come close to it;
But maybe I should be farther away.
clawing at the grave I'm sleeping,
As my tears fall like endless rain.
I think that this has been to soften the earth
To look after the bottom of my beloved. Wherever
.
Thus in the bosom of the earth,
Woman, I just have to adore
And nobody, but I have to pamper you.
more gentle with the heat of my breath
'll get back to life.
The embrace, the kiss, and my kisses
Awakening go smoothly.
Most, if not be,
Come, do not delay, cyclone,
May your deep darkness
And I devour them my life gone forever.
You, damp earth with my tears,
You, generous land, harbor. Single
form in the world, I
it was for eternity.
night I'm bottomless.
I'm lonely without end.
I am the very flesh of trouble
And I'm on the run from my own thinking.
More , no. I want something from her. I have to snatch a bone
And I have in my breast as if she
He has become my hands Quena
And it has to mourn my own tears.
From eternity,
Since the source of light,
is perhaps she who is calling me?
No, it is only the cry of my Quena !
The instrument you can hear in the video below is a bamboo Quena built by natives of the province of Jujuy, north of Argentina, Bolivia limiting already. As detailed in the notch has an embedding bone. In the picture at the top correspond to the Quena it to appear on the right.
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