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a hollow tube that turned wind into the world's oldest melody machine.
means A wind instrument shaped as a slender tube, played by blowing across or into a hole so the air column inside vibrates into pure, high notes.
from From Old French 'flaute' or 'flahute,' arriving in English in the late Middle Ages, with cousins across the Romance languages (Provençal 'flaut,' Spanish 'flauta'). The deeper root is uncertain — possibly an echo of Latin 'flare,' to blow, perhaps tangled with 'laut' (sound) — fitting for a thing made entirely of breath. The tall, narrow champagne glass borrowed the name later, for sharing the instrument's slim silhouette.
- ancient ancestor
- Bone flutes date back over 40,000 years.
- breath only
- It's the only woodwind with no reed.
- split air
- Sound is your breath slicing across an edge.
- speed runs
- Capable of dizzyingly fast trills and runs.
- named loosely
- Champagne flutes stole the shape and the name.
theobald boehm's flute — invented the modern transverse flute with the boehm system in 1847, revolutionizing flute design
krishna's bansuri — the sacred wooden flute played by lord krishna in hindu mythology and bhagavata purana texts
james galway's gold flute — irish flutist famous for playing a solid 14-karat gold flute, recorded over 40 albums since 1972