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
Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Woman, possibly a member of the Beresteyn family is a 1632 portrait painting by Rembrandt. It shows a woman with an unusually large millstone collar, pendant to "Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family". It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt created this painting as a pendant to the MET's portrait of a man, probably as a wedding pendant. Only a few pairs of pendant portraits by Rembrandt have survived. This pair came into the