History of Flute

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 The name of the instrument flute came from a small fish, 'Lamprey', which has 7 holes on its sides. These  holes are same as 14 holes of flute. Or came from a word 'Querfiote' that means, width pipe in Germany.

 Flute is the one of the oldest instrument and also had a lot of changes to become like today's shape. The origin of it is very old, ancient Greece and ancient Egypt have traces. By these facts, we can guess there was a flute before that time. Also, Greece is the one of the country where the making flute was developped and played. The flute music had grown up in Russia, Germany, Spain, France, as well as troubadour in 13th century.

  In Baroque and middle age, it was used in military but, recorder was popular in that time music. So, in 17 to 18th centry, flute means recorder, and flute that was blown with width side called width flute or Germany flute. In 19th centry, the width blow flute was altered with recorder, because of  the Germany flute player, Theobald Boehm. Boehm changed cone shaped body as cylinder and made holes bigger to make flute rational and to gain regular half-notes. He also makes it easier to block the holes, by adding rings and shafts.
  As time passes, its material has been changed. The woods were changed into metals. This process makes flute to be protected from climate, humidity and temperature. In musical sounds and tones, it made flute sounds more clearly and mild. Metal makes easier to to make a flute thinner, and it makes flute to make light sound and if you blow it strong, it makes shap tones.