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“A melodic instrument for the most part, the flute has a clear and bright sound with a distinctive warmth, refinement, and subtlety to its tone.”
Flute, brief description — Vienna Symphonic Library
“The concert flute is an edge-tone instrument and consists of three pieces of tubing: the headjoint, middle joint (body) and footjoint. The lip plate and embouchure are set in the conical headjoint. If the embouchure is set on a little plateau it is known as a reform embouchure. This slight elevation facilitates attack, which makes it especially popular with beginners. The upper end of the headjoint is closed by the stopper, which is movable and enables slight adjustments to intonation.”
Flute: Beginner Guide — Music & Arts
“The flute is made up of three parts: The headjoint, body and foot. When connecting the pieces, the hole in the headjoint should line up in a straight line with the row of keys on the body. The main rod on the body of the flute should line up with the middle of the keys on the foot joint.”
Flute: Dr. Cate's Flute Tips | Flute pedagogy for school music directors
“Dr. Cate is a flute performer, scholar and teacher based in the Chicago area. She is an artist/scholar for Azumi flutes and appears around the US and internationally at music conferences, clinics and conventions. She is passionate about helping kids play the flute well and helping school music directors understand how to teach the flute more effectively to their students.”
Flute: Extended techniques — Emi Ferguson
“[S]ome extended techniques possible on the flute. This is by no means all of them, but some of the most effective, and used techniques. Composers and flute players are continuing to dream up new ways to play the instrument.”
Flute: Fingering Charts — WFG
“[A] list of all available fingering charts for Boehm-system flutes, which are the modern, most common type used today in bands and orchestras.”
Flute: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Flute: Playing Techniques — Vienna Symphonic Library
“The flute is an extremely agile instrument which allows staccato and legato playing at the fastest tempi. It is also ideally suited for fast arpeggios as well as chromatic and diatonic scales, leaps, tremolos and trills. The changeover from staccato to legato notes is especially characteristic of the flute.”
Flute: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Flute: The Orchestra Up Close — Orchestre Métropolitain
“Though the modern flute is constructed of metal, it is actually considered part of the woodwind family, as earlier iterations of the instrument were made of wood. Modern flutes are made of silver, gold, or platinum.”
Flute Colors | Extended techniques for flute
“All the extended techniques for flute on one website. That’s what Flute Colors is about. Click on one of the extended techniques on this page for more information about notation, how to perform the technique, watch and listen how it is played and much more.”