Triple Flageolet. Rarest of flute family. Perhaps only 12 exist in museums. Made 1825 - YouTube.
The contrabass flute is one of the rarer members of the flute family.
The price point of some of the most expensive flutes wavers around $30,000 – $80,000. These flutes typically are made of gold or platinum, have mechanisms that ease the difficulties of playing flute, and are handmade by reputable makers.
There are other rarer low flutes – the contrabass flute, subcontrabass flute and the hyperbass flute.
The Traditional North Indian flute called the Bansuri has 6 holes while the traditional South indian flute called the Pulil/Veenu had 7 holes. Both these where predominantly used in Folk music.
Wooden flutes are frequently described as being sweeter-sounding than metal flutes. The piccolo is highly popular in Western music, especially Western folk and academic music.
The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. It was discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno and has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals.
The flute is exceptionally rare: the Library of Congress has 20 Laurent-made flutes in its vault, but it's only one of two made of crystal, according to the Library.
Flute: 85 to 111 db. Cello: 82 to 92 db. Clarinet: 92 to 103 db. Piano (normal practice): 60 to 70 db.
The flute's range covers three octaves. As with most woodwind instruments the range also divides into three different registers. Its lowest note is Middle C on the piano or sometimes the B just below if the player has a longer foot joint.
The hyperbass flute is the largest and lowest instrument in the flute family. It is pitched in C, four octaves below the concert flute (and three octaves below the bass flute, two octaves below the contrabass flute, and one octave below the double contrabass flute).
The flute is louder, but the violin sound is more interesting and complex, in my opinion. The violin string produces more overtones than the flute.
Physical strength and absolute control over breathing pattern is critical while playing it. Also, it might seem to be an ordinary musical instrument, but actually, a flute is the most difficult instrument to play and master.
Theobald Boehm (1794-1881) was a German inventor and musician best known for developing the modern flute and improved fingering system, known as the “Boehm system.” Boehm patented his new fingering system in 1847.
An overtone flute has either no tone holes, or relatively few tone holes for a woodwind instrument. To make melodies, one plays it high into the overtone series.
There are eight LCME Flute grades, plus two introductory levels, four performance diplomas and three teaching diplomas. The standard graded exams consist of a performance of three pieces, technical work, sight reading, a discussion and aural tests.
It is not true for flutes – at all! Because of how the flute is set up, what it is made out of, and the mechanism and different things that we have, they're not worth more, they're not higher quality the older they get.
James Galway, who eventually became known as the “Man with the Golden Flute,” basically grew up with a flute in his crib. His grandfather James Galway was a highly regarded flute player in Belfast. He taught his son, another James Galway, to play the flute.