bass flute 1

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The bass flute is the bass member of the flute family; it is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute.

  • 1.Prior to the mid-20th century, the term "bass flute" was sometimes used, especially in Great Britain, to refer to the alto flute instead (for example: the part for "bass flute in G" in Gustav Holst's The Planets).
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