Guo Musical Instrument Company 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 flute. This
Contrabass flute Golia, Bruce Lawrence, Adrienne Albert, and Sheridon Stokes. As a virtuoso solo instrument, even a few concertos have been composed for the contrabass flute. Catherine McMichael composed a concerto for low flutes and orchestra in 2006 entitled 'Three Philosophies', in which one of the movements features the contrabass flute. In April 2008 the well structured concerto "Bantammer's Swing" for contrabass flute and chamber orchestra by Ned McGowan was premiered in Carnegie Hall. In 2010, the 'Lyric Concerto' for contrabass flute and strings was commissioned by Sheridan from the late Australian composer Bruce Lawrence. 'Nola' by composer Benjamin Yusapov, was commissioned