Members of the western concert flute family or private collections. This distinctive sounding instrument is rarely found at present. A few American publications for flute choir currently include a part for an E (soprano) flute, an instrument pitched a minor third higher than the standard C flute. In these publications, an alternative part is provided either for the C flute or for the piccolo. The standard concert flute is by far the most common member of the flute family. The flute is used in many ensembles including concert bands, orchestras, flute ensembles, occasionally jazz bands and big bands. The instrument is pitched in C and has a
Contrabass flute the contrabass flute include Andy Findon, Laura Hyder, Madeleine Bischof, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Matthias Ziegler, Stefan Keller, Ned McGowan, Peter Sheridan, Sérgio Morais, David Lamont and Vinny Golia, who also plays all the other sizes of flute, and has recorded with it on the CD "Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes", in a quartet with three other flutists. Due to the price and rarity of this instrument, few people have explored this instrument. The contrabass flute in C is produced by the Japanese firm of Kotato & Fukushima, Eva Kingma, and Christian Jäger from Munich. Jupiter flutes has created a student