flute
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- noun
- /fluːt/
:
flauta
- Woodwind classes have exactly 24 players: 8 flutes, 12 clarinets, 1 oboe, and 3 percussionists.
- play the flute
- blow the flute
- flute player
Why should the best flutes go to the best flute players?
- Why should the best flutes go to the best flute players?
- He said that's what flutes are for, to be played well.
- Would you ever do a flute duet with this person?
- We can learn an instrument, pick up a drum, pick up a flute, A clarinet.
- We talked about flutes and how there are no left-handed flutes.
- Is it fair to say that this man is a serious flute hater?
- So Dre is out here making movies and he plays a flute now and he does some other cool shit.
- And then I later I took up the flute.
- That's that's Pan, the devil with the horns and the shaggy legs playing the flute.
Examples
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I've always wanted to play the flute.
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I left my flute in the band room.
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I must really love your sister, to come and hear her play the second flute with a lot of students.
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Why should the best flutes go to the best flute players?
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Rie played the flute in a band I directed, but she was not my student.
Academic text (2013) -
Some Native American Indian mythologies suggest that the flute was used as a tool to communicate human feelings.
Academic text (2011) -
On traditional wooden flutes, the bird is usually secured to the flute body with a leather cord.
Academic text (2011) -
Four musicians who play three types of staccato drums and an atonal flute provide musical punctuation and rhythm.
Academic text (2013) -
Rachel and I often play Baroque duets written for flutes, but we have adapted them for guitars.
Academic text (1992) -
After years of practice, she finally learned how to play the flute beautifully.
Synonyms
A metal or wooden instrument held sideways and played by blowing across a hole used in orchestras and bands
A wind instrument held horizontally that you play by blowing across a hole
A modern metal flute with keys designed by Theobald Boehm played by blowing across a side hole
A common concert wind instrument played by blowing across a hole tuned to C and used in orchestras
Compounds
- Specialized
A modern metal flute with keys designed by Theobald Boehm played by blowing across a side hole
- Specialized
A common concert wind instrument played by blowing across a hole tuned to C and used in orchestras
- Specialized
A drill bit with straight grooves along its length that remove small rock pieces
A tube wind instrument held vertically with finger holes that you blow into through a whistle mouthpiece
- Specialized
A metal or wooden instrument held sideways and played by blowing across a hole used in orchestras and bands
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Etymology
Flute comes from old European words like French flauta that meant a 'pipe' or 'tube' you blow into. So a flute is named for being a hollow tube that you blow across to make music.