Tonette

The stub-ended Swanson tonette is a small (6" cavity), end-blown vessel flute made of plastic, which was once popular in American elementary music education.

However, the pitch analysis is more complex above the fundamental, as the tonette is actually a Helmholtz resonator (like the ocarina) rather than an open or closed pipe.

Tonette tone holes are of varying sizes designed to provide a clarinet or recorder like fingering scale.

The shorter length required for pitches at around the child's voice made the tonette ideal for carrying as well as finger placement for small hands.

Peter Schickele has described the tonette as "a cheap, synthetic recorder with amusing pretensions"; it is one of the instruments featured in the Gross Concerto by P. D. Q. Bach.