Flute
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The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the
Shinobue and other flutes
Chinese women playing flutes, from the 12th-century Song dynasty remake of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, originally by Gu Hongzhong (10th century)
Bone flute made of a goat's tibia, 11th–13th century AD.
Playing the zampoña, a Pre-Inca instrument and type of pan flute.
Western concert flute
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The Western concert flute can refer to the common C concert flute or to the family of transverse flutes to which the C flute belongs. Almost all are made of metal or wood, or a combination of the two.
A modern copy of an 18th-century French traverso, by flute-maker Boaz Berney
Various Baroque flutes and recorders in the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum
An early keyed H.F. Meyer all-wood construction flute in case
Carlo Tommaso Giorgi and his Giorgi flute. The flute was end-blown.