Flute The wood is usually African Blackwood. The standard concert flute is pitched in C and has a range of three octaves starting from middle C or one half step lower when a B foot is attached. This means the concert flute is one of the highest common orchestra and concert band instruments. The piccolo plays an octave higher than the regular treble flute. Lower members of the flute family include the G alto and C bass flutes that are used occasionally, and are pitched a perfect fourth and an octave below the concert flute, respectively. The contrabass, double contrabass, and
The Bone Flute did not allow the story to be included on that year's Nebula Awards anthology compiling the nominated and winning short stories. It has only been reprinted twice in the original language: on Tuttle's anthology of science fiction stories "A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories", and a 1995 various authors anthology titled "Lost In Space". A Danish translation (entitled "Benfløjten") was published in "Forum Fabulatorum" () no. 2, March 1983. In 2011, the story was reissued as an ebook, with a specially-written afterword by Tuttle regarding the Nebula awards situation. The Bone Flute "The Bone Flute" is a science