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The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of ...
While there is no exact date that the alto flute was created, large flutes have existed for several hundred years. [1] Some problems with early alto flute design included the long length of the tube, troublesome cross fingerings, inconsistent intonation, finger holes that were too wide across, and how far one’s arm had to be stretched in order to reach the finger holes, particularly in the ...
The Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection, many pictures of flutes through the ages, among other useful information Sir James Galway's Flute Chat Moderated flute discussion forum Larry Krantz Flute Pages , wide range of flute related information contributed by many professional flute players
It is pitched in C, four octaves below the concert flute (and three octaves below the bass flute, two octaves below the contrabass flute, and one octave below the double contrabass flute). It is made of PVC and wood, its tubing is over 8 metres (26 ft) in length and its lowest note is C 0 (16 Hz), below what is generally considered the range of ...
End-blown flute: Xiao (end-blown vertical bamboo flute) Gudi, an ancient vertical flute made from the bones of large birds; Paixiao (pan pipes with distinctive notched or curved blowholes to allow for greater expression) Xun (clay globular flute) (Uyghur and Mongolian minorities also play a version of the Turkish ney.) Fipple flutes:
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An upright bass flute being played by Carla Rees A contra-bass flute. The bass flute is a member of the flute family pitched one octave below the concert flute.The tubing length is twice as long at 146 cm (57 in), which requires a J-shaped head joint to bring the embouchure hole within reach of the player.
The flute (Venu or Vamsa) is mentioned in many Hindu texts on music and singing, as complementary to the human voice and Veena (vaani-veena-venu). [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The flute is however not called bansuri in the ancient, and is referred to by other names such as nadi , tunava in the Rigveda (3000–2500 BCE) and other Vedic texts of Hinduism , or ...
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