Flute

The flute is the highest member of the woodwind family. It has a beautiful pure tone. The flute is easily transportable and performs in a wide range of ensembles.

There is a large repertoire of music for the flute. Baroque composers used them in their orchestras, usually in pairs, and composed concertos, chamber music and solo music for them. This has continued to the present day. Orchestras have at least 2 flutes each, sometimes three or four. Sometimes there is 1 piccolo which plays an octave higher, or an alto flute which plays a fifth lower than the flute.

The flute sounds very bright and cheerful playing high notes. Please listen, for example, to the Badinerie from Bach’s Orchestral Suite no 2. It can also sound very thoughtful or sad when playing in its lowest register. 

Source: https://kids.kiddle.co/Flute

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