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Discover LudwigThe word 'flute' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a musical instrument, usually a type of woodwind instrument. Example sentence: He practiced playing the flute for hours every day.
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flute
noun
A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
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I always like a record with a flute in.
And at no 90 it's Vampire Weekend's Unbelievers, which Ezra Koenig says features "a flistle", a cross between a flute and a whistle.
He wore a haggard and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute.
He was very good on his flute, and his happiest moments were the two or three moons after the harvest when the village musicians brought down their instruments, hung above the fireplace.
Last year, Australian one-hit-wonders Men at Work were taken to court over the origins of the flute riff in their song Down Under.
The musicians, on drums, a flute and a single-string violin, continued playing quietly long after we had gone to bed.
And I had left my flute in the hotel room … Realising loaves, fishes and loose change wasn't going to stretch so far, we did the sensible, if cowardly, thing and bolted.
(His ideal, for all his modernity, was to produce an electronic instrument that could be played with the human emotion of a cello or a flute).
A teenage boy stays firmly on the rails, no drugs, no wildness— "a son in a flute band seemed like a blessing by comparison" —but his enthusiasm for being in a Protestant marching band inexorably pulls the family apart.Ms Seiffert's novel builds not so much to a grand finale as a bleak realisation, that grand political themes, brought down to the level of the everyday, aggrandise no one.
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Boston had charmed and made the New England link between founding father and errant, flute-playing son.
Never, never admit to being a flute-player with a rock band.
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