transverse flute

British  

noun

1. the normal orchestral flute, as opposed to the recorder (or fipple flute)

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Example Sentences

Drink and helplessly pucker your lips into an embouchure proper for rocking a transverse flute.

From Slate • May 23, 2013

As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced by the stronger tones of the transverse flute.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first essentially western European trace of the transverse flute occurs in a German MS. of the 12th century, the celebrated Hortus deliciarum of the abbess Herrad von Landsperg.19 Fol.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

We have no evidence of the survival of the transverse flute after the fall of the Roman empire until it filtered through from Byzantine sources during the early middle ages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Praetorius22 designates the transverse flute as “Flauta traversa’ Querpfeiff” and “Querfl�t,” and gives the pitch of the bass in the tenor and alto in and the discant in as varieties then in use.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various