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The standard concert flute, also called C flute, Boehm flute, silver flute, or simply flute, is pitched in C and has a potential range of three and a half octaves starting from the note C 4 . The flute's highest pitch is usually given as C 7 or (in more modern flute literature) D 7.
The double contrabass flute (sometimes also called octobass flute) is pitched in the key of C, three octaves below the concert flute (two octaves below the bass flute, and one octave below the contrabass flute). Its lowest note is C 1, one octave below the cello's lowest C. Despite the tendency of the larger sizes of flute to be quiet, the ...
The contrabass flute is one of the rarer members of the flute family. Typically seen in flute ensembles, it is sometimes also used in solo and chamber music situations.Its range is similar to the regular concert flute, except it is pitched two octaves lower; the lowest performable note is two octaves below middle C (the lowest C on the cello).
The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the piccolo. It is characterized by its rich, mellow tone in the lower portion of its range.
For example, a recorder with lowest note G 4 may be known as a G-alto or alto in G, a recorder with lowest note D 5 (also "sixth flute") as a D-soprano or soprano in D, and a recorder in G 3 as a G-bass or G-basset. This usage is not totally consistent.
Its lowest note is C 0, one octave below the lowest C on a standard piano, which at 16 hertz is considered below the threshold of human hearing. Humans hear from 20 to 20,000 Hz. The first playable example was built by Florentine craftsman Francesco Romei for Italian flutist Roberto Fabbriciani, inventor and first performer of the instrument. [1]
Lowest C on a standard 88-key piano: 36 65.40625 Lowest note for cello: 48 130.8125 Lowest note for viola, mandola: 60 261.625 Middle C: 72 523.25 C in middle of treble clef: 84 1,046.5 Approximately the highest note reproducible by the average female human voice: 96 2,093 Highest note for a flute: 108 4,186 Highest note on a standard 88-key ...
The sopranino in G is most probably the instrument Claudio Monteverdi calls for in L'Orfeo (1607), by the name flautino alla vigesima seconda (little flute at the third octave). [ 4 ] In 18th-century England, the sizes of recorder smaller than the treble in F (which was called simply "flute") were named according to their interval above it, and ...