\ud83c\udfb6 The Siku is a traditional Andean pan flute (panpipe). It is played across the Andes, but is especially associated with Aymara-speaking populations living around Lake Titicaca \u26f0
\nA standardized siku have TWO ROWS OF PIPES \ud83e\udd13; the\u00a0IRA\u00a0row and the\u00a0ARKA\u00a0row. \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udfeb According to local folklore, the ira row corresponds to the male principle and the arka to the female.
\nIn the olden days, it was common for TWO PEOPLE TO PLAY TOGETHER, with one playing the ira notes and the other one arka notes to achieve a complete scale\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb
\n\ud83e\udd14 This is, instead of joining both rows of tubes they give each half to two different musicians to play as separate flutes, as a single Siku does not contain all the notes.<\/p>\n
“#TeamWork \u2192 ONE PERSON CANNOT PLAY A COMPLETE MELODY\ud83c\udfb5, it is needed always another musician to create one harmony that makes sense and make the instrument sound as one \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\ud83c\udfb6 The Siku is a traditional Andean pan flute (panpipe). It is played across the Andes, but is especially associated with Aymara-speaking populations living around Lake Titicaca \u26f0 A standardized siku have TWO ROWS OF PIPES \ud83e\udd13; the\u00a0IRA\u00a0row and the\u00a0ARKA\u00a0row. \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udfeb According to local folklore, the ira row corresponds to the male principle and the arka to the female. In the olden days, it was common for TWO PEOPLE TO PLAY TOGETHER, with one playing the ira notes and the other one arka notes to achieve a complete scale\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb \ud83e\udd14 This is, instead of joining both rows of tubes they give each half to two different musicians to play as separate flutes, as a single Siku does not contain all the notes. “#TeamWork \u2192 ONE PERSON CANNOT PLAY A COMPLETE MELODY\ud83c\udfb5, it is needed always another musician to create one harmony that makes sense and make the instrument sound as one \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}