Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9ENGLISHUNIT - 10 - Kathmandu2 Marks
Question
Write a note on the connection of flute and culture.
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Answer
The narrator Vikram Seth saw a flute seller near the hotel.
Flute music had always attracted the narrator due to its most universal and most particular of sounds.
He believed that there was no culture that did not have its flute - the reed neh, the recorder, the Japanese shakuhachi, the deep bansuri of Hindustani classical music, the clear or breathy flutes of South America, the high-pitched Chinese flutes.
Each had its specific fingering, compass and it wove its own associations.
It drew one into the commonality of all mankind.
Its music was closest in its phrases and sentences to the human voice.
Its motive force was the living breath as it too needed to pause and breathe before it could go on.
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