History Of The Flute Essay

The flute is a instrument that have been existing almost 35,000 years.The first metal flute creator was Theobald Boehm in the 16 th centuries, which is made by vulture’s wing bones, perforate with 5 finger holes for when you play it it will have holes to make music.But if the 5 holes of the flute would have the same tone, it wouldn't be worth having the holes since it would make the same tone.That’s why the flute have 16 different tones holes.

An interesting fact about the flute is that in 1529 Martin Agricola suggested shaking the voice to make a better while playing the flute to make it sound better.The flute are divided into 2 type, the end blow and the side blown.The side blown most of the time appears in orchestras, while the same blown

Because there was only one key on the flute you had to play it with very complicated fingers, the name would be fork fingers, and they didn’t sounded too good.But they invented more tones and holes to get rid of the fork finger.

In 1775 the flute already had 4 keys.Eventually more keys were added to the flute but there still wasn't a good system to the flute. An english famous flautist Charles Nicholson {1794~1881} introduce larger holes for the fingers and for the mouth part, to make it sound better.

The flute refers to an broad of instrument which is found in many different cultures.This is a very special name for this kind of flute.some of the names like cross flute, german flute,transverse flute, and flauto traverso.what it’s important to all of this names is that they represent an instrument that are held horizontally when their are being played.The flute was found in China in approximately in 900 B.C and it was called a ch’ie.
The oldest flute have been found in Swabian Alb region of