Flute

The flute is in the woodwinds section of an orchestra.

No, the shawm.

There is strong evidence that the flute was not the first instrument made. It was almost certainly some kind of drum. These were made by the cavemen, made out of animal skin, sticks, grass and clay.

A piccolo is just a half-sized flute: that is, a flute that is twice as small as a regular flute. This causes the pitches of the piccolo to be an octave higher when playing the same notes/fingerings as a normal flute.

Other than this, there are some additional technical differences. Flutes are mostly made of sterling or pure silver, while many piccolo players in symphony orchestras prefer wood for its mellow, darker sound. Piccolos also do not have a foot joint, leaving it with only one right pinky button, and tend to have head joints that lock into the body of the piccolo rather than slide into it as a flute head joint would. Some piccolos also do not have lip plates.

You place your first 3 fingers down, your thumb, and your pinky for normal G. Then, like any other high note, you direct your air and blow hard.

improved: if you mean the REALLY high G (4 ledger lines above the staff) it is just like the lower octaves except no thumb.

Woodwind .

originally made from bone, then wood, and now medal, usually silver

The flute belongs to the woodwind (or better known wind) instrument family. It is a reedless instrument where sound is created by blowing air across an opening in the instrument.

A flute player is called a flutist or a flautist.

There are many variations of the flute...the most common and the ones that most relate the the common "C" flute are the piccolo, alto flute and bass flute. There are glass flutes, bamboo flutes, Irish flutes, etc.

try piccolo.

Syrinx by Debussy, and Fantasie by Faure. There are lots of famous pieces. One of the most popular is James Galway's version of John Denver's Annie's Song. There's lots of flute music you can buy online at sibeliusmusic.com I've written lots of flute music myself. Visit http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/timnew

To polish a flute, you can usually buy a cleaning kit with a yellow cloth you clean it with, take away smudges and any dust that has been collected over time, and then you can get a blue silver polishing cloth that will make it shine. Most of the time, these kits come with a little brush to get into the little areas that are really hard to clean, and pad papers that you clean the key pads with. Just be carefull not to push down too hard when using those, they can mess up your pads and they are really expensive to replace.

If you already know all the technical things needed to play the flute then yes. It is just a little more difficult because it takes more breath support and it requires a tighter mouth positioning. The opening in the mouth (aka apeture but i cant spell it) needs to be substantially smaller and the lips much tighter. Other than that its pretty much a breeze. Be aware though that the super high notes do cause headaches

1) Make a "C" shape with both of your hands, and put the fingertips of your right hand into the curved line of your thumb and first finger of your left hand, and close the heels of both hands together to make a large chamber with a hole by your thumbs.

2) Put your mouth on the hole and blow. See if the chamber is airtight. If it is not, then wiggle your fingers around a bit until you get a large, airtight chamber.

3) Put your thumbs next to each other and bend them slightly, forming a slot between your them. This slot should be the only hole in the flute. Blow on the slot to be sure the chamber is airtight.

4) If your chamber is large and airtight, you are ready to try and make a sound. Put your lower lip on your thumb knuckles. This forms a small upside down "V". This is the whistle hole that makes the sound. The sound comes out of the slot below your lower lip. The sound output hole must be open to let the sound out. If your chin is touching it, the sound can't get out. Raising your elbows up slightly helps keep the sound output hole open.

5) Try to make a sound through the whistle hole. Blow fairly hard. Move your thumbs around very slightly to change the shape of the whistle hole. Keep your chamber air tight.

Some people get this in five minutes, and some people take five weeks.

a soprano is straight like clarinet and usaully gold colored and the alto is curved on the bottom it makes a 180 degree turn outward. and a soprano sax is smaller and often straight instead of curved. it is pitched at B flat as opposed to E flat. alto sax is the most common saxophone. musicmoo :)

Soprano sax is sometimes semicurved and sometimes straight. It has the same pitch as a tenor sax whereas an Eb alto sax is the same pitch as a baritone sax. hope this helps, Saxesofevil and walt899

Either "Y"

or if it is being twisted side to side, it is "yellow"

The modern flute was invented by William Boehm because he felt the need to innovate the Chinese flute, which was popular in Europe, but was a very imperfect instrument. For example the wood it was constructed from was prone to expansion and contraction, as well as mold and succumbing to the elements. The Chinese flute also did not have consistent pitch.

As for the earliest example. the Divje Babe flute is a 43,000 year old cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes that was found at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. The artifact was the product of Neanderthals. The purpose can only be imagined - magic, signaling, music or the first teens to annoy their parents.

i think you need to re-phrase the question a little. In terms of genre the flute mostaly polays classical/soundtrack music but it has been known that the flute has played in the Jazz genre and even rock genres in terms of pitch a flute can play all the notes between C3 on a piano (middle C as it's known) to C6 (most players can do this and a good flute can go a little higher)

N-Flute is some where between 0,5 - 0,6mm

G-Flute (or Offset Flute it's also called) is 0,8mm. Try www.PAPYRUS.com for info!

A-flat is one note lower than A-natural, and A-sharp is one note higher than A-natural. A-sharp is the same note as B-flat. On the flute, the fingering for A-sharp/ B-flat is left thumb, left pointer finger, right pointer finger, and right pinky down. The fingering for A-flat is left thumb, all left fingers, and right pinky down. As far as sharps and flats go, they generally mean the same thing for any note; think of flat as meaning "one note lower than" what the letter is, and think of sharp as meaning "one note higher than" what the letter is. For example, C-flat is one note lower than C-natural, and C-sharp is one note higher than C-natural.

C natural, commonly reffered to as the normal "C" fingering for flute is the first finger, and the last pinky for leverage. It is the same for Middle C and High C, and maybe Low C, I dunno if there is a low C on flute, but if there is, it's the same fingering. That is First Finger, and Pinky, NO THUMB. For a C Sharp(most comminly written as D flat) the keys are the pinky only.

it has three the head-joint the main bit and the bottom

The flute is called a flute for one main reason. That it was made in German lands and it was called a flute to be distinguished from the recorder.

The more expensive, better quality flutes are usually made of silver alloys. Less expensive are the nickel alloy flutes (usually silver-plated). Even so, flutes have been made from wood, gold, glass, and all sorts of different materials, but for a serious flautist, solid silver alloys would probably be the most popular.

When playing a theme song it is important to have the sheet music. The sheet music for the Pink Panther can be found in online forums and in music stores.