🪈 Woodwind family
Flute
🔊 How it makes sound
You blow across a hole, like blowing over a bottle top. Keys open and close holes along the metal tube.
🎼 Range and clef
From middle C up about three octaves. Reads treble clef.
🎨 Its timbre colour
Light, airy and silvery, like birdsong.
Timbre is the "colour" of a sound, the idea from Lesson 0. A violin and a flute can play the same note, but you can still tell them apart!
🎧 Listen to
Debussy: "Syrinx"
💡 Fun fact
Flutes are woodwind even though most are made of metal, because old flutes were wooden.