Tarka (flute)

Tarka (flute)

The tarka (quechua, aymara: tharqa) is an indigenous flute of the Andes. Usually made of wood, it has 6 finger holes, fipple on mouth end and free hole on distant end.

The tarka is a blockflute, like a recorder, but is comparatively shorter and quite angular in shape, requires greater breath, and has a darker, more penetrating sound.

The tarka has three variants: big, medium (tuned by fifth above) and small (tuned by octave above). Usually all three kinds of tarka are being used together, in a big ensemble, playing the same melody on three voices with fixed interval and are accompanied with percussion instruments (tiña, huancar). This traditional genre is called tarqueada.

See also

* Quena


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