• Look up flute or flûte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A flute is a musical instrument. Flute can also refer to: Sébastien Flute (born 1972), French...
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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...
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    The eunuch flute, onion flute, or mirliton (/ˈmɜːrlɪtɒn/; French: flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon or mirliton; German: Zwiebelflöte) is a membranophone...
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  • The soprano flute (also called a third flute or tierce flute) is a type of flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is pitched in E♭, a minor...
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    En flûte (French: "as a fluyt") is a French naval expression of the Age of Sail to designate the use of a warship as a transport with reduced armament...
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    The subcontrabass flute is a member of the Western concert flute family. With the length of tubing ranging from 15 feet (4.6 m) (when in G) to 18 feet...
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  • The Cowboy's Flute (Chinese: 牧笛, Mu Di) is a Chinese animated short film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio under the master animator Te Wei....
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    The hyperbass flute is conceptually the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the flute family, although it is extremely rare. It first appeared at...
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    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...
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  • study of the Baroque flute. In 1707, Jacques Martin Hotteterre wrote the first method book on playing the flute: Principes de la flûte traversière. The 1730s...
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  • The flûte d'amour (/ˌfluːt dəˈmʊər/ FLOOT də-MOOR, French: [flyt damuʁ]; Italian: flauto d'amore; German: Liebesflöte; all translating as "love flute")...
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    The contrabass flute is one of the rarer members of the flute family. Typically seen in flute ensembles, it is sometimes also used in solo and chamber...
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  • During regular archaeological excavations, several flutes that date to the European Upper Paleolithic were discovered in caves in the Swabian Alb region...
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    converted flûte of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. She was built in 1781 at Le Havre as the flûte Autruche...
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    A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually...
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  • perpendicular to the flute's body length. Transverse flutes include the Western concert flute, the Irish flute, the Indian classical flutes (the bansuri and...
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  • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (French: La Flûte à six schtroumpfs, lit. The Flute of Six Smurfs) is a 1976 Belgian animated film starring the Smurfs...
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  • Sébastien Flute (born 25 March 1972 in Brest, Brittany) is a gold medal winning French archer. He currently has the 25th best ranking in the world among...
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    domain recording. Problems playing this file? See media help. The nose flute is a musical instrument often played in Polynesia and the Pacific Rim countries...
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    La flûte magique (en. The Magic Flute) (ru. «Волшебная флейта», Volshebnaya Fleita) is a ballet comique in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov...
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    The Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte, pronounced [diː ˈtsaʊbɐˌfløːtə] ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto...
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    Chinese flutes come in various types. They include Transverse flutes: Dizi (and its varieties such as the qudi and bangdi; primary transverse flutes, usually...
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    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...
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  • Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush is a children's picture book by Lynne Cherry, creator of The Great Kapok Tree. It was published in 1997 by...
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  • A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period...
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  • A Salamiyyah is an open-ended small reed flute seen in Egypt. It is listed as a folk instrument as it is made from wood and is a part of folk music, specifically...
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    ISBN 0517533448. [s.n.] (12 October 2012). Musique: Benoît Sauvé, une flûte crédible… (in French). Le Mauricien. Accessed August 2013. Compositions...
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    glass flute or crystal flute is a glass instrument briefly popular in the early 19th century. They are an unusual variety of the Western concert flute designed...
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    A flute circle is an organization of musicians which focuses on the Native American flute. Flute circles typically meet periodically to engage in educational...
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  • The Flute-Player (Gollancz, 1979) is a fiction book by British novelist, poet, playwright and translator Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas...
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