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2. Gemeinhardt - Wikipedia

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   Before this, many flutes were made with an older A435Hz tone hole placement (scale), despite being designed to play at A440Hz through the use of a shortened headjoint. [6] Many flute companies recognized this change and decided to make their flutes the same way, but Gemeinhardt was slow to modify its design.

3. List of flute makers - Wikipedia

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   Oleg Garbuzov died in 2022. His company no longer offers flutes, headjoints or flute-related products. No: No: No Olwell Flutes: USA: Father and son, Patrick and Aaron Olwell, makers of mainly Irish flutes: Yes: Yes: Yes Opperman: USA: Maker of piccolos, alto and bass flutes as well as C flutes and head joints, died 2016: No: Yes: No Oxley ...

4. Western concert flute - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Gizmo key - Wikipedia

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   Parts of a flute. The gizmo key is illustrated in red.. The gizmo key is a key commonly found on the B foot joint of certain models of flute.It closes the low B tone hole without closing the low C tone hole or the low C ♯ tone hole, which is intended to facilitate the performance of the fourth octave C.

6. Subcontrabass flute - Wikipedia

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   The subcontrabass flutes are members of the Western concert flute family.Built in two sizes, the instrument in G or F, also known as the double contra-alto flute, has 4.6 to 4.9 metres (15 to 16 ft) of tubing, while the larger instrument in C, also known as the double contrabass flute or octobass flute, has tubing 5.5 metres (18 ft) long, and is the second largest instrument of the family ...

7. Boehm system - Wikipedia

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   The flute is perhaps the oldest musical instrument, other than the human voice itself. There are very many flutes, both traversely blown and end-blown "fipple" flutes, currently produced which are not built on the Boehm model. The fingering system for the saxophone closely resembles the Boehm system.