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.
The subcontrabass flutes are members of the Western concert flute family. Built in two sizes, the instrument in G or F, also known as the double contra-alto flute, has 4.6 to 4.9 metres of tubing, whi