The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system, wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design. The
Matt Molloy playing flute in Westport in March 2000
Charles Nicholson with flute, 1834 portrait
Michael McGoldrick in Lorient in 2013.
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
Irish flute
…The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system, wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design (often with…
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.