Flutes Across The World creates a structure for 5th grade students at Topa Topa to reach out and touch impoverished children in distant parts of our world through the gift of music. Within this program, flutes similar to recorders are hand made by students as part of a cultural awareness program, taught by master artist/educator john Zeretske.

Pilot Project:

 Flutes for the Philippines

Vocabulary - Translation

nose flute (kalleleng) 
lip-valley or notched flute (paldong) 
whistle flute (olimong) 
panpipes (diwdiwas) 
buzzer (balingbing) 
half-tube percussion (palangug)
stamping tube (tongatong) 
tube zither (kolitong) 
jew’s harp (giwong)

The Philippines
Maps and info at World Atlas

Go to Google Earth and see the Philippines in 3D

Research Links:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Philippines-Culture&id=411156

www.filipinolinks.com/Arts/Folk_Arts_and_Music/

www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/culhist.htm

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~brandeis/bukid_music.html#instruments_other

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_folk_music