Fadno is a reed instrument and domestic flute of the Sami people of Scandinavia, made from Angelica archangelica.[citation needed] The instrument features a reed and three to six (generally four) fingerholes[1] and appears to have no parallels among the surrounding Scandinavian peoples.[2]

Fadno
A picture of 2 fadnos.
Woodwind instrument
Classification aerophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification422.211.2
(single-reed aerophone with cylindrical bore and fingerholes)
Related instruments
arghul, bülban, clarinet, diplica, dili tuiduk, dozaleh, cifte, launeddas, mijwiz, mock trumpet, pilili, Reclam de xeremies, sipsi, zammara, zummara

Characteristics

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The instrument is made from a 15–30 cm length of the angelica plant (fadno, the term for one-year-old angelica), from which the instrument derives its name.[3] The instrument's reed categorized as an "idioglottic concussion reed",[4] meaning the reed is fashioned from the tube itself.[5] Fadnos were played with Sami drums together with joik.

References

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  1. ^ Etnografiska museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) (1948). Ethnos. Routledge on behalf of the National Museum of Ethnography. p. 90.
  2. ^ American Anthropological Association; Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.); American Ethnological Society (1948). American anthropologist. American Anthropological Association. p. 673.
  3. ^ Arthur Spencer (1978). The Lapps. Crane, Russak. ISBN 978-0-8448-1263-2. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  4. ^ Åke Hultkrantz. Swedish Research on the Religion and Folklore of the Lapps. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 85, No. 1/2 (1955), pp. 81-99
  5. ^ "Wind Instrument - The History of Western Wind Instruments". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 September 2016.