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Professional flutes and headjoints made in precious metals alto flute headjoints: Yes: Yes: Yes Armstrong: USA: Now owned by Conn-Selmer: Yes: Yes: No Artley: USA: Now defunct Conn-Selmer brand. The company made piccolos, C flutes, E-flat soprano flutes, alto and bass flutes. (The bass flute was designed by T.S. Ogilvie) No: Yes: No Avanti: USA ...
Gemeinhardt Co. is a manufacturer of flutes and piccolos. [1] These musical instruments are developed by this company for all levels of musicians, beginners to professionals
Conn-Selmer, Inc. is an American manufacturer of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments and was formed in 2003 by combining the Steinway properties, The Selmer Company and United Musical Instruments.
Dana Sheridan began to manufacture his own flutes in 1972, after graduation from Boston's Berklee School. [4] After receiving a degree in music composition from that school, he worked with prominent flute manufacturers William S. Haynes, Verne Q. Powell and Brannen Brothers, before creating his own flute manufacturing company in 1982. [4]
Some sources claim this may have been the first all-platinum instrument in the world, and while this is unclear, it was certainly an American first. [5] [13] In 1993, Dr. Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space, brought her Haynes flute with her to space, making Haynes flutes the first flutes in space. [14]
In the 1720s, as the transverse flute overtook the recorder in popularity, English adopted the convention already present in other European languages of qualifying the word flute, calling the recorder variously the "common flute", "common English-flute", or simply "English flute" while the transverse instrument was distinguished as the "German ...
The bass flute is an octave lower than the concert flute, and the contrabass flute is an octave lower than the bass flute. Less commonly seen flutes include the treble flute in G, pitched one octave higher than the alto flute; soprano flute, between the treble and concert; and tenor flute or flûte d'amour in B ♭ , A or A ♭ [ citation ...
William Sherman Haynes (1864–1939) was the founder of the William S. Haynes Flute Company of Boston, alongside his brother, George.The company was founded in 1888 and is America's oldest flute manufacturer and remains one of the world's leading makers of concert flutes.