Csakan

The cane flute ( csákány to look for spelling Czakan, Hungarian: Csákány ) was built in a walking stick recorder. In 1800 she came on in and around Vienna, and was in the 19th century, especially in the Biedermeier era, especially in Austria - Hungary very popular.

The csákány was a recorder with seven front holes and one thumb hole, were added to the passage of time one or more flaps. The invention of the instrument is the flute virtuoso Anton Heberle attributed. Ernest Krähmer (1795-1837) was the one who wrote a considerable number of sophisticated compositions, mostly for csákány accompanied by a guitar or piano, and thus greatly contributed to the popularity of the instrument. Furthermore, there are compositions for csákány, for example, by Anton Diabelli, Conradin Kreutzer, János Lavotta and Johann Strauss.