Description

Traverse flute.
Key: F.
Length: 47 cm.
Material: ashwood.
Design features: tunable with a conical inner channel.

The sound is chamber, collected.

 

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.