Flutes
Name:Flute
Info: A high-pitched reedless woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube (usually metal) closed at one end with keys and finger holes on the side. Regarded as a transverse instrument, players hold the flute perpendicular to the mouth and.produce sound by blowing air across the mouthpiece much like blowing across the top of a bottle. The flute is among the most agile instruments in the orchestra. The alto flute is pitched a fourth lower than the standard 13-hole instrument; and the bass flute, is pitched an octave below the standard. Its smaller cousin, the piccolo, which sounds an octave higher than the standard flute, is so piercing that it can be heard over an entire orchestra playing at full volume. Between 1830 and 1850, Theobald Boehm developed the modern flute and a system of fingering for producing the notes still known today as the Boehm system.
Clef:Treble