Fadno

A picture of 2 fadnos.

Fadno is a reed instrument and domestic flute made from Lapland angelica plants of the Sami people of Scandinavia.[1] The instrument features a reed and three to six (generally four) fingerholes[2] and appears to have no parallels among the surrounding Scandinavian peoples.[3]

Angelica plant

See also

References

  1. FInnic Paganism. PediaPress.
  2. Etnografiska museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) (1948). Ethnos. Routledge on behalf of the National Museum of Ethnography. p. 90. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  3. American Anthropological Association; Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.); American Ethnological Society (1948). American anthropologist. American Anthropological Association. p. 673. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  4. Arthur Spencer (1978). The Lapps. Crane, Russak. ISBN 978-0-8448-1263-2. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  5. 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
  6. "Wind Instrument - The History of Western Wind Instruments". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-09-17.

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