Does anyone know what instrument this is?

[bill]

I stumbled across this on youtube. I thought it was pretty cool.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qvp412kdkfE

Does anyone know if that's a recorder or a whistle he's playing? It says whistle in the video info, it kind of looks and sounds like a recorder to me. I like the way it sounds though.

Bill

[Gabriel]

Looks like a recorder to me.

And the hurdy-gurdy is terribly out of tune...

[fearfaoin]

There are two guys playing wind instruments, one with a metal low whistle,
the other with the mystery instrument, I suppose. You can see them both at
the 3 minute mark. I think the disputed instrument might well be a whistle, it
looks like a Lon Dubh style whistle (which looks a bit like a recorder).

[Mickey McNamara]

Looks like it might be a pito de llaves, or keyed recorder. Here's a (translated) link with a picture and sound clip:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... S%26sa%3DG

[evenstr]

Looks like a recorder to me.

[Jason Paul]

The description says whistle.

Jason

[Wanderer]

i looks it it has keys on it to me.

I don't know of any keyed lon dubh whistles.

[Bothrops]

In the description says, among another things, "whistle" and "pito de llaves".
"Pito de llaves" is another instrument different from the whistle. The traduction to english would be something like "keyed whistle". However, it's neither a whistle, nor a recorder

"Pito de llaves":

[Flogging Jason]

Could the word we're looking for be "Flageolet"?

[bill]

Thanks for the replies, that's a nice looking instrument. I had never seen or heard of one of those before.

[pipersgrip]

looks like a Lon Dubh, like said before, or a Sweetheart.

[jemtheflute]

The "pito de llaves" illustrated above is essentially a simple system (conoid bore, 5 or 6-keys in same or similar arrangement as on flute) piccolo body with a fipple-flute (whistle) head. It is definitely not a recorder or a flageolet as such. I believe MTGuru gave some information on the same kind of thing previously - from Northern or N.E. Europe - called there "csakan" or "czakan". Forum search should find it.

[Pyroh]

Well, the "disputed" instrument obviously has C hole, so it won´t be a whistle. It looks and sounds like a recorder to me...

[pancelticpiper]

I've hung around Galician pipers a bit (real guys from Galicia either living here or visiting) and they do have an instrument which looks like a recorder and fingers in a way very similar to a recorder (which is the way the Galician gaita gallega fingers).
I don't remember the Gallego name for it- I think they just call it a "flauta" or "frauta" perhaps in their dialect.
It is NOT a transverse flute (the play those too, called requinta). It is NOT an Irish whistle of any kind, or a flageolet, or anything else. It's a Galician recorder. I call it a recorder because it fingers pretty much like a recorder- you can get all the semitones of the octave using "fork fingerings" (just as on the Gaita Gallega) and you use the thumb hole to facilitate the 2nd octave (also exactly as on the Gaita Gallega).
Anyhow all the Galician pipers play these, and they often use them where a Scottish piper would use a practice chanter- to learn and teach tunes.
Carlos Nunez plays this thing all the time on his recordings.

[fearfaoin]

i looks it it has keys on it to me.

You guys have better eyes than I.