Transverse flute
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A transverse flute or side-blown flute is a flute which is held horizontally when played. The player blows across the embouchure hole, in a direction perpendicular to the flute's body length.
Transverse flute with B Foot, also with C Foot available (Buffet Crampon)
Irish flute
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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
Transverse flute
…blows across the embouchure hole, in a direction perpendicular to the flute's body length. Transverse flutes include the Western concert flute, the Irish flute, the Indian classical flutes (the bansuri and the venu), the Chinese dizi, the Western fife, a number of Japanese fue, and Korean flutes such as daegeum…
Matt Molloy playing flute in Westport in March 2000
Charles Nicholson with flute, 1834 portrait
Michael McGoldrick in Lorient in 2013.