The western concert flute family has a wide range of instruments.

The following section follows a rough sketch history of the western concert flute.

The Western concert flute is a transverse (side-blown) woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.

The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.

Flute repertory is the general term for pieces composed for flute (particularly Western concert flute).

Its tone is between that of a traditional Chinese flute and that of a Western concert flute, giving it a much mellower sound.

The Western concert flute, a descendant of the 19th-century German flute, is a transverse flute that is closed at the top.

Example 2: The Western concert flute plays approximately three and a half octaves and generally has three complete registers and one partial register.

Due to its wooden construction, characteristic embouchure and direct (keyless) fingering, the simple system flute has a distinctly different timbre from the Western concert flute.

Within the next ten years she expanded her repertoire with the western concert flute whereby she won the Bavarian state level awards of Jugend musiziert two times.

She enrolled at age 12 on a course in Western Concert Flute at the Porto Music Conservatory, discovering there a passion and talent for singing.

Shaped like an egg, it differs from the ocarina in being side-blown, like the Western concert flute, rather than having a recorder-like mouthpiece (a fipple or beak).

A number of excellent players-Joanie Madden being perhaps the best known-use the Western concert flute, but many others find that the simple system flute best suits traditional fluting.

With some refinements (and the rare exception of the Kingma system and other custom adapted fingering systems), Western concert flutes typically conform to Boehm's design, known as the Boehm system.

This cantata is written for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass soloists, four-part chorus, three trumpets, three oboes, two Western concert flutes, fagotto (bassoon), strings, timpani, and continuo.

An unusual case of a transversely blown but vertically held flute is a special variation of the standard flute, or, more specifically, the Western concert flute, designed to be played in an upright position.

The dimensions and key system of the modern western concert flute and its close relatives are almost completely the work of the great flautist, composer, acoustician and silversmith, Theobald Boehm, who patented his system in 1847.

Another division is between side-blown (or transverse) flutes, such as the Western concert flute, piccolo, fife, dizi and bansuri; and end-blown flutes, such as the ney, xiao, kaval, danso, shakuhachi, Anasazi flute and quena.

Simple system flutes were not made with traditional folk musicians in mind, but were adapted by Scottish and Irish flautists as the simple wooden flutes were discarded by concert musicians during the advent of the modern, Boehm system, Western concert flute in the mid-19th century.