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  2. Subcontrabass flute - Wikipedia

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    The subcontrabass flute is a member of the Western concert flute family. With the length of tubing ranging from 4.6 metres (15 ft) (when in G) to 5.5 metres (18 ft) long (when in C), it is the second largest instrument of the family after the hyperbass flute .

  3. Contrabass flute - Wikipedia

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    The contrabass retains the facility for trills, as found elsewhere in the flute world. The contrabass' ease of arpeggiation is moderate and thus equivalent to the rest of the flute family. The contrabass flute requires a much greater air volume to produce sound than most other wind instruments, and a broader, slower air stream is needed to ...

  4. Western concert flute family - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Voice flute: D 4, formerly A 3: Tenor recorder: C 4, formerly G 3: Basset recorder F 3: Bass recorder: C 3: When notated in treble clef Great bass recorder: F 2: Contrabass recorder C 2: Saxhorns: Flugelhorn: B ♭ 3: Tenor horn: E ♭ 3: Baritone horn B ♭ 2: When notated in treble clef Saxophone Piccolo saxophone: B ♭ 4: Sopranino ...

  6. Contra-alto flute - Wikipedia

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    The contra-alto flute is a large member of the flute family, pitched between the bass and the contrabass.It is a transposing instrument either in G (a perfect fourth below the bass and one octave below the alto) or in F (a perfect fifth below the bass and a major ninth below the alto).

  7. Venu - Wikipedia

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    Some flutes even go beyond 1 meter length. There is no limit in the imagination of these kind of flute constructions. Few examples are Double contrabass flute, Contrabass flute and Anahat Venu, which can go up to 12 feet. Even a PVC pipe can be used to construct a flute in a very simple way, simply using common scissors.

  8. Contrabass - Wikipedia

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    Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.

  9. Flute - Wikipedia

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    Lower members of the flute family include the G alto and C bass flutes that are used occasionally, and are pitched a perfect fourth and an octave below the concert flute, respectively. The contra-alto, contrabass, subcontrabass, double contrabass, and hyperbass flutes are other rare forms of the flute pitched up to four octaves below middle C.