What is a pentatonic flute?
Well, I could give a lot of descriptions but a while back when I was looking for information I found two wonderful clips from other people that I have saved for this question. One was from a message board and I thought the answer was GREAT because she gives a VISUAL explanation. The other one is from a traditional music site: Here they are: From the celtic music site (they also have free music there as does http://www.choroi.com/music/arsongs.htm) A pentatonic scale is a five-note, or “gapped” scale, e.g. C D E G A C (like a major C scale, but missing the F and B). A pentatonic tuning is probably the most restrictive in terms of limiting the different kinds of tunes you can play, but may be appropriate if you are exclusively playing one kind of music on that particular instrument. It may also be used on a very small instrument, such as a lyre or miniature harp. Pentatonic tunes are actually quite common, especially in folk and roots music – to see a short list of examples, check out th
