Soprano flute alternative part is provided either for the C flute or for the piccolo. With the substitution of one of these more commonly found instruments, however, the distinctive colour of a treble flute sound is missing. Soprano flute The soprano flute (also called a third flute or tierce flute) is a type of flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is pitched in E, a minor third above the concert flute, and is the only member of the modern flute family that is not pitched in C or G. The pitch was set at a time such flutes substituted
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