Sentence examples for transverse flute from inspiring English sources
noun
Any type of flute that is held sideways when played.
Transverse flute of bamboo.
Concert Royal offered strong string playing, and the first-rate transverse flute solos of Sandra Miller.
tube... The transverse flute and piccolo of the Western orchestra are side-blown.
The transverse flute moved from the Byzantine Empire to Germany in the late Middle Ages.
His treatise on playing the transverse flute, Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen (1752), was reprinted many times.
In Taiwan the transverse flute (di) and free-reed mouth organ (sheng) are played in celebrating Confucius's birthday.
The ensemble members are John Solum and Richard Wyton playing transverse flutes; Lisa Terry, basse de viole; and Dan Swenberg, theorbe.
The name once applied to end-blown (xiao) flutes as well but is now used exclusively for transverse flutes.
In China, for instance, transverse flutes may be played in modern folk ensembles as well as in ritual and local theatre orchestras.
Later in the century, reproductions of other historical instruments became available, including crumhorns, shawms, Renaissance flutes and recorders, Baroque transverse flutes, Baroque oboes, and Baroque trombones.
Palladium is also used to make professional transverse flutes.
