Whats a Baroque Flute?
This flute is richer in overtones, and blends softly with other instruments in small ensembles found in Baroque chamber music. Similar to the Irish Flute but with more taper in the bore, it has a small, round blowhole and small fingerholes. This combination gives the player more control to play chromatics on 6 holes with cross fingering. The player also ‘bends’ pitch (flat or sharp) by covering more (less) of the blowhole and changing the blowing angle. Given a good sense of pitch and intervals, the trained player uses bending to execute an accurate scale in each playing key. During this period, some instruments used a high pitch standard while others used low. Each Baroque Flute comes with an extra left hand body section for playing at low pitch (A=415) to be used in place of the A=440 section. Note: to use the A=440 section and just pull the head out would distort the scale; baroque players need to be prepared for both pitch standards. Traditionally, the Baroque Flute has one key lev
