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
Western concert flute Blavet, Vivaldi, and Handel. Because of the works of such composers, the flute became popular as a solo instrument. However, there were few professional flutists who had the flute as their main instrument; many had the oboe. In 1707, Jacques Martin Hotteterre wrote the first method book on playing the flute: "Principes de la flûte traversière". The 1730s brought an increase in operatic and chamber music feature of flutes. The end of this era found the publication of "Essay of a Method of Playing the Transverse Flute" by Quantz. The orchestras formed in the last half of the 18th century