petite flûte

: a keyed woodwind instrument consisting of a cylindrical tube which is stopped at one end and which has a side hole over which air is blown to produce the tone and having a range from middle C upward for three octaves.

Piccolo (Picc.) Flauto piccolo (Fl. picc.) Petite flûte (Pte. fl.)

verb (used without object),flut·ed, flut·ing. to produce flutelike sounds. to play on a flute.

Flute girls [1] or more accurately, aulêtrides (female aulos players), are often considered mere prostitutes in classics scholarship [2] due to their status as slaves, suggestive dress, and their signification of the presence of Dionysius due to playing at symposia where drunken excesses take place.

Definitions of flute player. someone who plays the flute. synonyms: flautist, flutist. type of: instrumentalist, musician, player. someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

mezzo-forte

short and detached A dot above or below a note tells you to play it short and detached. This should not be confused with a dot after a note which alters its value. Short, detached, jumpy notes are called staccato. Listen to the two examples below to hear how the same notes sound when played without and with accents.

Airy, light, poetic, mellow, bright, wafting, ethereal, rich, soft, graceful, penetrating, brilliant, clear, shrill, silvery, wind-like, whistling, whispering, humming, filigree, sighing, aspirate.

The flute notes are divided into three groupings or 'registers' - cleverly named low, middle and high. Each register has its characteristic tone. A combination of varying air speed and embouchure shape is the key to moving between these octaves, and maintaining great sound.

The longer an individual plays the flute and continues to practice moving their lips and mouths just right, the better they become at moving all the tiny muscles in and surrounding their lips. I heard somewhere that it takes around one hundred and twelve muscles of the lips and face to make a good kiss.

All related (38) A person who plays the flute is typically called a flutist or a flautist. Jillian Slaght.

Flutist is the far more common term chosen in the American vernacular, but according to “Webster's Dictionary of English Usage,” flautist is more proper in British English.