The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third-most common member of its family after the stand

Theobald Böhm was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and Clarinet and its fingering system. He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and