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
Bass flute the first verse on bass flute, the second on alto, and the third on soprano. In electronic music, Jack Dangers has sometimes used bass flute as the leader of the Meat Beat Manifesto. A bass flute is heard throughout George Bruns' score for "The Jungle Book" and the original Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Perhaps the best-known work to feature the bass flute is the album "Wave" by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Bass flute The bass flute is the tenor member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Because of