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Who created the flute?

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Who created the flute?

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It wasn’t really created, but rather evolved over centuries of time. If you HAVE to provide a name, then Theobald Boehm created the current system of keys on the flute.The Boehm system is a system of keywork for the flute, created by inventor and flautist Theobald Boehm between 1831 and 1847. Prior to this time, flutes were most commonly made of wood, with an inverse conical bore, eight keys, and tone holes (the openings where the various notes are emitted from a musical instrument) which were small in size, and thus easily c gkljx;glkhkjfgh overed by the fingertips. Boehm’s work was inspired by his seeing, in London in 1831, a concert by soloist Charles Nicholson, who with his father had introduced in the 1820s a flute constructed with larger tone holes than were used in previous designs. This large-holed instrument could produce greater volume of tone than other instruments, and Boehm set out to produce his own large-holed design. In addition to large holes, Boehm provided his flute

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Theobald Boehm developed that modern flute system that we use today, but many, many people helped in the development of the early flute.

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