Flute hyperbass are other rare forms of the flute pitched two, three, and four octaves below middle C respectively. Other sizes of flutes and piccolos are used from time to time. A rarer instrument of the modern pitching system is the treble G flute. Instruments made according to an older pitch standard, used principally in wind-band music, include D piccolo, soprano flute (the primary instrument, equivalent to today's concert C flute), F alto flute, and B bass flute. The bamboo flute is an important instrument in Indian classical music, and developed independently of the Western flute. The Hindu God Lord Krishna
Xindi (instrument) which complements the other orchestral instruments better. All these reasons contribute to why its use for solo performance is so restricted and rare. Xindi (instrument) The xindi (; literally "new flute") is a Chinese musical instrument. A 20th-century derivative of the ancient "dizi" (bamboo transverse flute), the "xindi" is western influenced, fully chromatic, and usually lacks the dizi's distinctive "di mo", or buzzing membrane. The xindi is also known as the 11-hole di (十一孔笛). Its design is western influenced and based on the principal of equal temperament. It first appeared in the early 1930s. It was designed and produced by