Transverse flute

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed A transverse flute or side-blown flute is a flute which is held horizontally when played.<ref>Powell, A. (2001). Transverse flute. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 6 Feb. 2024</ref> The player blows across the embouchure hole, in a direction perpendicular to the flute's body length.<ref name="g">Template:Cite Q</ref>

Transverse flute with B Foot, also with C Foot available (Buffet Crampon)

Transverse flutes include the Western concert flute, the Irish flute, the Indian classical flutes (the bansuri and the venu), the Chinese dizi, the Western fife, a number of Japanese fue, and Korean flutes such as daegeum, junggeum and sogeum.

See also

• End-blown flute

References

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