Flute

Флейта

Audio: Flute

The flute is a transverse woodwind (or metal) instrument without a reed. The highest voice of the orchestral wind section, with a clear, flying, “airy” tone.

The flute is among humanity's oldest instruments: finds date back 40,000 years. The modern concert flute was invented by Theobald Böhm (1847): a silver or gold metal body, a complex key system, a full chromatic range of three octaves.

The flute's sound is transparent, light — sometimes resonant, sometimes mysterious. Composers used it to depict birds (Saint-Saëns in The Aviary from The Carnival of the Animals), pastoral scenes (Debussy in Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), magic (Mozart in The Magic Flute). Ukrainian flutists: Serhiy Zaika, Maria Vorotna. The sopilka and floyara are the Ukrainian sisters of the world flute.

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Flute

Sub-category:: woodwinds

The flute is a transverse woodwind (or metal) instrument without a reed. The highest voice of the orchestral wind section, with a clear, flying, “airy” tone.

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Basolia

Sub-category:: strings

The basolia is a Ukrainian folk bowed string instrument of the bass register, similar in form and size to the cello. Held between the knees, it has 3–4 strings and provides the low bass voice in troïsta music.