Description

Traverse flute.
Key: C major.
Length: 32 cm.
Material: ashwood, copper rings.
Design features: whole.

The sound is some airy, collected and quiet.

 

Transverse flute – one of the oldest varieties of flutes. The first surviving mention are about 150 BC the Etruscan relief.
The transverse flute is the ancestor of the modern orchestral flute.