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transverse flute

flute which is held horizontally when played
Class type of: flute without duct Q16875637

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
family of musical instruments
Subclass of
flute without duct[2]
Part of
Guizzi's classification of musical instruments, MIMO's classification of musical instruments[3][4]
Hornbostel-Sachs classification
421.12[7]
Official name
Side-blown flutes, Flauti traversi[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en transverse flute en transverse flutes en side-blown flute en side-blown flutes cs příčná flétna da side-blæst fløjte de Querflöte en-gb side-blown flute es Flauta travesera fa نای کناردمشی fr flûte allemande fr flûte traversière it flauto ad imboccatura laterale it flauti traversi it flauto traverso ja 横笛 ko 가로피리 nl Dwarsfluit pl Flet poprzeczny pt Flauta transversal
🔖 Identifiers · 20
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
A musician playing transverse flute 2.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300201259
BNCF Thesaurus ID
67763
Described at URL
www.mimo-db.eu
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
flute-traversiere
Exact match
wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu, wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu
Freebase ID
/m/0l15fs
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
tverrfløyte
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
travers-fleita-5d7caf
Iconclass notation
48C73513
Lex ID
tværfløjte
MIMO instrument ID
4093
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MusicBrainz instrument ID
ebc071ab-24b6-4b2f-8981-340f1f76f2bd
NL CR AUT ID
ph124950
RKD thesaurus ID
65790
TOPCMB ID
flauta transversa
Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID
5108
Topic's main category
Category:Side-blown flutes
Vikidia article ID
fr:Flûte_traversière
WikiKids ID
Dwarsfluit

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 6
fife, Irish flute, daegeum, xindi, yokobue, chi
← Instrument 5
Ian Anderson, Marcel Moyse, Jorge Reyes, Urs Leimgruber, Andy Scherrer
Examples 2
piccolo, Western concert flute
Instance of 1
family of musical instruments
Topic's main category 1
Category:Side-blown flutes
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Side-blown flutes
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Summary

transverse flute is a family of musical instruments[1].

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Use and Application

Part of include Guizzi's classification of musical instruments[3] and MIMO's classification of musical instruments[4], a musical instrument classification[8].

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Ian Anderson

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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [8] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → A musician playing transverse flute 2.jpg, Lily as Mitsuha Miyamizu playing flute 20200823.jpg, Cesar Peredo crop.jpg +6
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Image: Lily playing flute at Garden Area, Jazz Square 20210130.png, Removing [[:c:File:Lily_playing_flute_at_Garden_Area,_Jazz_Square_20210130.png|Lily_playin"
  2. 23w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Instance of → family of musical instruments
    Part of → Guizzi's classification of musical instruments, MIMO's classification of musical instruments
    Topic's main category → Category:Side-blown flutes
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID: 5108, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/169895163|flûte traversière (#169895163)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match"
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