flute
Modern concert flutes are usually metal but are classified as woodwinds by how sound is produced. This topic is part of Musical Instruments within Music. This page currently draws on 8 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
flute trivia questions
A flute belongs to which family of musical instruments?
Answer: Woodwind
Bonus fact: Modern concert flutes are usually metal but are classified as woodwinds by how sound is produced.
How does a concert flute produce sound?
Answer: Air blown across an opening
Bonus fact: Air directed across the embouchure hole sets the air column inside the flute vibrating.
Which orchestral flute sounds one octave higher than the standard concert flute?
Answer: Piccolo
Bonus fact: The piccolo is about half the length of a concert flute and sounds an octave higher.
The modern concert flute belongs to which instrument family?
Answer: Woodwind
Bonus fact: Modern concert flutes are usually made of metal but are still classified as woodwinds.
Who made President James Madison's crystal flute now in the Library of Congress collections?
Answer: Claude Laurent
Bonus fact: The Dayton C. Miller Collection includes Madison's crystal flute along with many other historically important wind instruments.
Which orchestral woodwind does not use a reed?
Answer: Flute
Bonus fact: The flute creates sound from air blown across an opening.
What instrument plays the distinctive solo in "California Dreamin'"?
Answer: Flute
Bonus fact: Jazz musician Bud Shank played the memorable alto flute solo.
Which Mozart opera features the Queen of the Night?
Answer: The Magic Flute
Bonus fact: The Queen of the Night has one of opera's most famous coloratura arias.