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Artist Lizzo playing a crystal flute once owned by James Madison. A 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 to preserve pitch and tone during temperature change better than the wood and ivory flutes available at the time of their manufacture.
[14] [1] It is possible this is the same instrument as the glasschord, an instrument consisting of glass bars struck by padded hammers which would be activated by a keyboard, similar to a celesta. Lizzo playing a Laurent crystal flute. The glass flute (or crystal flute) was patented in 1806 in France by Claude Laurent.
The xirula (Basque pronunciation:, spelled chiroula in French, also pronounced txirula, (t)xülüla in Zuberoan Basque; Gascon: flabuta; French: galoubet) is a small three holed woodwind instrument or flute usually made of wood akin to the Basque txistu or three-hole pipe, but more high pitched and strident, tuned to D/G and an octave higher than the silbote. [1]
This distinctive-sounding instrument is rarely found at present. A few American publications for flute choir currently include a part for an E ♭ (soprano) flute, an instrument pitched a minor third higher than the standard C flute. In these publications, an alternative part is provided either for the C flute or for the piccolo.
(B 3) C 4 –C 7 (F ♯ 7) The standard concert flute, also called C flute, Boehm flute, silver flute, or simply flute, is pitched in C and has a potential range of three and a half octaves starting from the note C 4 . The flute's highest pitch is usually given as C 7 or (in more modern flute literature) D 7.
The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments places this group under the heading "Flutes with duct or duct flutes." [1] The label "fipple flute" is frequently applied to members of the subgroup but there is no general agreement about the structural detail of the sound-producing mechanism that constitutes the fipple, itself.