0 a flute that is held to the side, like an orchestral flute, and not to the front, like a recorder --
Starting in 1991 he built altogether three fortepianos, and he continued to build recorders as well as transverse flutes until late in life.
However, it also makes an end-blown flute or transverse flute considerably more difficult for a beginner to produce a full sound on than a ducted flute, such as the recorder.
He performs as the lead vocalist and plays the transverse flute (which he degreed in at the music conservatory), and sometimes the electric guitar and the electric bass.
The piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written.
Much of the music available for the instrument was described as suitable for musette, hurdy-gurdy, recorder or transverse flute; or for all these plus oboe or violin.
A 20th-century derivative of the ancient "dizi" (bamboo transverse flute), the "xindi" is western influenced, fully chromatic, and usually lacks the dizi's distinctive "di mo", or buzzing membrane.
Traditionally it was accompanied by the shrill fife, a small transverse flute similar to the piccolo.
Unlike the transverse flute, the kaval is fully open at both ends, and is played by blowing on the sharpened edge of one end.
