Guo Musical Instrument Company New Design. Guo Musical Instrument Company Guo Musical Instrument Company (GMIC) is a Taiwan-based musical instrument manufacturer, specializing in flutes, piccolos, flute head joints, and saxophone necks and head joints. Founded by Geoffrey Guo in 1988, GMIC offers its products for sale online and through various retailers all over the world. Some of its instruments include a tenor flute, a G soprano flute, grenaditte flutes and a new C flute design called a Tocco flute. Many of these models of flutes and piccolos come in many different colors. In 2004, Geoffrey Guo and flute professor Mark Dannenbring developed the grenaditte
Overtone flute Overtone flute An overtone flute is a type of a flute that is designed to play in the upper harmonics, typically well above the two or three harmonics that are the practical limit for most woodwind instruments. An overtone flute has either no tone holes, or relatively few tone holes for a woodwind instrument. To make melodies, one plays it high into the overtone series. One series of harmonics is achieved by overblowing with the end of the tube open and another is achieved with the end closed. This means that most overtone flutes are limited to producing only those