East Texas Quarterly Magazine Summer 2014 | Page 12

playing chamber, resonating chamber,tone
chamber, or variable tube). The sound chamber
contains the sound hole (or distal mouth opening or
true sound hole) and the tone holes (finger holes).
The slow air chamber can serve as a secondary
resonator, which can give some flutes a distinctive
sound. The two chambers are acoustically
connected by a narrow channel, called a flue that is
formed by the top of the plug and the bottom of a
removable block (or “bird”, “fetish