Types of Wooden Flutes

Wood flutes offer a player the warmth and flexibility of even today's modern silver flutes, but with a distinctively "wooden" timbre. There are more and more professional players deciding that a new wooden flute is now their primary instrument.

The relatively low density of the flute-making woods allows for a starkly different timbre than flutes made of metals. The density of flute-making woods can vary between .5 and 1.3, while the density of silver is about 10.5, the density of pure gold is about 19.3, and the density of platinum is about 21.5.

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Wood flutes offer a player the warmth and flexibility of even today's modern silver flutes, but with a distinctively "wooden" timbre. There are more and more professional players deciding that a new wooden flute is now their primary instrument.

The contrabass flute was designed to perform as a solo instrument as well as a bass instrument in choirs. Important condition for this is that the flute plays well in the bottom register, that it produces more decibels than other flutes.

The standard concert flute is by far the most common member of the flute family. The flute is used in many ensembles including concert bands, orchestras, flute ensembles, occasionally jazz bands and big bands.

Woodwind & Brasswind carries a wide variety of top flute and piccolo brands such as Altus, Gemeinhardt, Pearl and Yamaha. Those needing help selecting a flute or piccolo can read helpful guides and resources like the Flute Buying Guide and Flute Care.

The Subcontrabass Flute is tuned in G. The range of the Subcontrabass Flute in G starts half an octave below the Contrabass Flute. Or two and a half octaves below the C-flute.