"the instrument is a prototype built for Italian flautist Roberto Fabbriciani by Francesco Romei, a Florentine craftsman. Members of the western concert flute family The western concert flute family has a wide range of instruments. The piccolo is the highest-pitched member of the flute family, with a range an octave above that of the concert flute. It is usually the highest-pitched instrument within orchestras and bands. The piccolo has a stereotype for being difficult to play in tune; its small size makes it difficult to construct an evenly tuned scale. The treble flute is pitched in the key of G,"
"Chicago Scavenger Hunt list. It was worth 50 points. Hyperbass flute The hyperbass flute is an extremely rare and the largest and lowest pitched instrument in the flute family, with tubing reaching over in length. It is pitched in C, four octaves below the concert flute (three octaves below the bass flute, two octaves below the contrabass flute, and one octave below the double contrabass flute), with its lowest note being C, one octave below the lowest C on a standard piano. At 16 hertz, this is below what is generally considered the range of human hearing (20 to 20,000"
"Piccolo The piccolo (; Italian for ""small"", but named ""ottavino"" in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The modern piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written. This gave rise to the name ""ottavino"" (Italian for ""little octave""), which the instrument is called in the scores of Italian composers. It is also called ""flauto piccolo"" or ""flautino"", Vivaldi making use of the latter term. Piccolos are now mainly manufactured in the key of"
"eight piccolos by Melvin Lauf, Jr. and ""Una piccolo sinfonia"" for nine piccolos by Matthew King are two more examples. Piccolo The piccolo (; Italian for ""small"", but named ""ottavino"" in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The modern piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written. This gave rise to the name ""ottavino"" (Italian for ""little octave""), which the instrument is called in the scores of Italian composers. It is also called"
"to be quiet, the double contrabass flute has a surprisingly powerful tone, though it benefits from amplification in ensembles. 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). It is made of PVC and wood, its tubing is over in length and its lowest note is C (16 Hz), below what is generally considered the range of human hearing. The only known example of"
"Contrabass flute The contrabass flute is one of the rarer members of the flute family. It is used mostly in flute ensembles. Its range is similar to that of the regular concert flute, except that it is pitched two octaves lower; the lowest performable note is two octaves below middle C (the lowest C on the cello). Many contrabass flutes in C are also equipped with a low B, (in the same manner as many modern standard sized flutes are.) Contrabass flutes are only available from select flute makers. Sometimes referred to as the ""gentle giant"" of the flute family,"
"Hyperbass flute The hyperbass flute is an extremely rare and the largest and lowest pitched instrument in the flute family, with tubing reaching over in length. It is pitched in C, four octaves below the concert flute (three octaves below the bass flute, two octaves below the contrabass flute, and one octave below the double contrabass flute), with its lowest note being C, one octave below the lowest C on a standard piano. At 16 hertz, this is below what is generally considered the range of human hearing (20 to 20,000 Hz). The hyperbass flute is made of PVC and"
"Flûte d'amour The flûte d'amour (Ital: flauto d'amore, Ger: Liebesflöte, translates as: Love Flute) is pitched in either A or B and is intermediate in size between the modern C concert flute and the alto flute in G. It is the mezzo-soprano member of the flute family. It is also sometimes called a tenor flute. Unlike the alto flute, the ratio between the bore diameter and tube length is much the same as in the concert flute, which allows it to have a mellower tone colour but without losing any facility in the top octave. Its lowest sounding note is"
"of ""All You Need Is Love"". Use of the instrument is now commonplace in many musical genres. Maurice André, Otto Sauter, Guy Touvron, Reinhold Friedrich, Adolf Scherbaum, Ludwig Güttler, Wynton Marsalis, and Håkan Hardenberger are some well-known piccolo trumpet players. Piccolo trumpet The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B trumpet. Piccolo trumpets"
"Piccolo trumpet The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B trumpet. Piccolo trumpets in G, F, and even high C are also manufactured, but are rarer. The piccolo trumpet should not be confused with the pocket trumpet, which plays in the same pitch as the regular B trumpet. The piccolo trumpet in B"
"calls it ""exilent"" (highest) in Latin, and ""kleine Flöte"" (small flute), ""klein Flötlein"" (small little flute), or ""gar klein"" (really small) in German. According to Praetorius, it is the smallest of eight sizes of recorder in a complete """"Accort"" oder Stimmwerk"" (set of all voices), and sounds a ""quintadecima"" (a fifteenth—that is, two octaves) higher than a cornett . Such a complete set includes a total of twenty-one instruments, including a pair of exilents, and two each of the two next larger sizes, ""Discantflöten"" in D and C. However, Praetorius recommends restricting recorder ensembles to the five deepest sizes, because"
"Cura (instrument) The cura () is the smallest member of the bağlama family with the highest pitched sound. The member one size bigger than cura which gives a sound that is one octave lower than cura is the tambura. And the one with the deepest sound is the divan sazi whose sound is one octave lower compared to tambura. The smallest member of the baglama family, it is found in nearly every region of the country under a variety of names, including dede sazi, parmak cura, and üç telli cura. According to the instrument with which it is to be"
"C. Correctly describing Praetorius's ""gar klein Flötlein"" as ""der höchsten Schnabelflötenart mit nur vier Grifflöchern"" (the highest type of fipple flute, with only four finger holes), Curt Sachs equated this instrument with the ""flauto alla vigesima seconda"" specified by Claudio Monteverdi in the 1607 score of his opera ""L'Orfeo"". Because Praetorius gives the sounding pitch of the instrument's lowest note as C in Plate IX of the supplement to ""Syntagma Musicum"" 2, Sachs associated the name with ""gar klein"" as used by organ builders to refer to the so-called ""one-foot"" or ""third-octave"" register . Today, Monteverdi's instrument is generally assumed"
""""". Subcontrabass flute The subcontrabass flute is one of the largest instruments in the flute family, measuring over long. The instrument can be made in the key of G, pitched a fourth below the contrabass flute in C and two octaves below the alto flute in G; which is sometimes also called double contra-alto flute, or in C, which will sound three octaves lower than the C flute. The subcontrabass flute is rarely used outside of flute ensembles. It is sometimes called the ""gentle giant"" of the flute family because of its gentle sound. At present, the subcontrabass flute is"
"Praetorius depicted this instrument once again in the supplement (""Theatrum Instrumentorum"") to the second volume of his ""Syntagma Musicum"", where he uses the expressions ""gar kleine Plockflötlein"" (very small little recorder), ""garklein Flötlein"" (very small little flute), and ""klein Flötlein"" (small little flute). He gives the size of this instrument as about three or four Brunswick inches, its range as nearly two octaves, and its playing technique as involving ""unten zum Ausgang darneben mit eim Finger regiret werden"" (regulated by means of a finger under the outlet). The lowest open tone is shown in the woodcut as C, but Praetorius"
"Subcontrabass flute The subcontrabass flute is one of the largest instruments in the flute family, measuring over long. The instrument can be made in the key of G, pitched a fourth below the contrabass flute in C and two octaves below the alto flute in G; which is sometimes also called double contra-alto flute, or in C, which will sound three octaves lower than the C flute. The subcontrabass flute is rarely used outside of flute ensembles. It is sometimes called the ""gentle giant"" of the flute family because of its gentle sound. At present, the subcontrabass flute is an"
"Double contrabass flute The double contrabass flute (sometimes also called the octobass flute or subcontrabass flute) with over of tubing is the largest and lowest pitched metal flute in the world (the hyperbass flute has an even lower range, though it is made out of PVC pipes and wood). It is pitched in the key of C, three octaves below the concert flute (two octaves below the bass flute and one octave below the contrabass flute). Its lowest note is C, one octave below the cello's lowest C. This flute is relatively easy to play in comparison to most other"
"Flute The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist. Flutes are the earliest extant musical instruments, as paleolithic instruments with hand-bored holes have been found. A number of flutes dating to about 43,000 to 35,000"
"Piccolo oboe The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E or F above the regular oboe (i.e. notated a minor third or perfect fourth lower than sounding), the piccolo oboe is a sopranino version of the oboe, comparable to the E clarinet. Piccolo oboes are produced by the French makers F. Lorée (pitched in F) and Marigaux (pitched in Eb), as well as the Italian firm Fratelli Patricola (pitched in E-flat). Lorée calls its instrument ""piccolo oboe"
"Koudi The koudi (Chinese: 口笛; pinyin: kǒudí; also spelled kou di) is a very small Chinese flute made from bamboo. It is the smallest flute in Chinese Flute family. Its original shape is from prehistorical instruments made with animal bone, while Koudi is made with wood, bamboo or PVC, which is very distinct with the original shape. It was invented in 1971 by ""dizi"" master Yu Xunfa (, 1946–2006). In 1971, the famous Chinese Flute player Yu Xunfa, who was inspired by original prehistorical instrument, made the first Koudi. This instrument contains one octave, and two years later this instrument"
"sring to be the most characteristic of national Armenian instruments. Flute The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist. Flutes are the earliest extant musical instruments, as paleolithic instruments with hand-bored holes have been found."
"Romanian: Ciocârlia, lit. ""The Skylark""). The instrument is also used in Chinese orchestral pieces such as ""Fei Tian"". Basically, a Koudi has two octaves, but it is not easy to get on the correct pitch. MiaoLing de ZaoChen by Yu Xunfa Notable gaohu players include: Koudi The koudi (Chinese: 口笛; pinyin: kǒudí; also spelled kou di) is a very small Chinese flute made from bamboo. It is the smallest flute in Chinese Flute family. Its original shape is from prehistorical instruments made with animal bone, while Koudi is made with wood, bamboo or PVC, which is very distinct with the"
"D), and what is known today as sopranino was the ""octave flute"" . Sopranino recorder The sopranino recorder is the second smallest recorder of the modern recorder family, and was the smallest before the 17th century. This modern instrument has F as its lowest note, and its length is 20 cm. It is almost always made from soft European or tropical hardwoods, though sometimes it is also made of plastic. Historically there were several sizes of recorder in this register, named differently in different periods and in different languages. In his ""Syntagma Musicum"" (1619), Michael Praetorius describes this size of"
"Scherzo Furioso by William Blezard, Tasmanian Ants by Ian Keith Harris, Iberian Improvisations and Bailables by Leonard Salzedo, Variations on a Sicilian Shepherd Tune by Clive Strutt. Two concerti have been written featuring the piccolo oboe in addition to the other four members of the oboe family, these works being David Stock's ""Oborama"" and James Stephenson's ""Rituals and Dances,"" both written for Alex Klein. Piccolo oboe The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E or F above"
"Tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibration into a large mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the newer instruments in the modern orchestra and concert band. The tuba largely replaced the ophicleide. ""Tuba"" is Latin for 'trumpet'. In America, a person who plays the tuba is known as a tubaist or tubist. In the United Kingdom, a person who plays the tuba in an orchestra is known simply as a tuba player; in"
"was also called the ""flautino"" , ""flauto piccolo"", and ""flautino piccolo"", and is sometimes spelled ""zufolo"". Known as the Picco pipe and marketed as a toy until early in the 20th century, the instrument was popularized in London in 1856, either as a toy by a blind Italian musician named Picco , or by a blind Sardinian player at Covent Garden . The zuffolo is the smallest form of ducted-flue tabor pipe or flute-a-bec, at 3½"" long, with the windway taking up 1½"". It has only three holes: two in front and a dorsal thumb hole. It has the same"
"of the instrument may vary (many piccolos are made of wood, some very large flutes are wooden or even made of PVC). The flute is perhaps the oldest musical instrument, other than the human voice itself. There are very many flutes, both traversely blown and end-blown ""fipple"" flutes, currently produced which are not built on the Boehm model. The fingering system for the saxophone closely resembles the Boehm system. A key system inspired by Boehm's for the clarinet family is also known as the ""Boehm system"", although it was developed by Hyacinthe Klosé and not Boehm himself. The Boehm system"
"and the contrabass flute is an octave lower than the bass flute. Less commonly seen flutes include the treble flute in G, pitched one octave higher than the alto flute; soprano flute, between the treble and concert; and tenor flute or flûte d'amour in B or A, pitched between the concert and alto. The lowest sizes (larger than the bass flute) have all been developed in the 20th century; these include the sub-bass flute, which is pitched in F, between the bass and contrabass; subcontrabass flute (pitched in G or C), contra-alto flute (pitched in G, one octave below the"
"violin. This process is similar to that used to determine the provenance of art works. As significant value may be attached to violins made either by specific makers or at specific times and locations, forgery and other methods of fraudulent misrepresentation can be used to inflate the value of an instrument. Violin The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments are known, including the violino piccolo and the"
"cases C). Modern flutes may have a longer foot joint, a ""B-foot"", with an extra key to reach B. From high to low, the members of the concert flute family include: Each of the above instruments has its own range. The piccolo reads music in C (like the standard flute), but sounds one octave higher. The alto flute is in the key of G, and the low register extends to the G below middle C; its highest note is a high G (4 ledger lines above the treble staff). The bass flute is an octave lower than the concert flute,"
"Soprano flute The soprano flute (also called a third flute or tierce flute) is a type of flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is pitched in E, a minor third above the concert flute, and is the only member of the modern flute family that is not pitched in C or G. The pitch was set at a time such flutes substituted for the E-flat clarinet, but the instrument is now rare. The instrument is rarely available now. A few American publications for flute choir currently include a part for E (soprano) flute. In these publications, an"
"Tro che The tro che or tro chhe (ទ្រឆេ) is a member of the tro family of 2-stringed Cambodian fiddles, the smallest member of the Tro family. It is tuned the same as the Tro u, one octave higher. Like most of the other members of the family, it is a two stringed instrument. Formerly, silk strings were standard, but now metal wire or cable is used. The resonating chamber, a cylinder, is made of hardwood or ivory. There are no standard sizes; however the resonating chamber can be 65–70 mm across and 105 mm long. The skin soundboard, is"
"Eunuch flute The eunuch flute, or onion flute, or mirliton (Fr. ""flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon"" and ""mirliton""; Ger. ""Zwiebelflöte"") is a musical instrument of the woodwind family used during the 16th and 17th centuries, producing music akin to the comb-music of the nursery, and still manufactured as a toy (""mirliton""). The eunuch flute consists of a wooden tube widening out slightly to form a bell. The upper end of the tube is closed by means of a very fine membrane similar to an onion skin stretched across the aperture like the vellum of a drum. The mouthpiece, a simple"