Fipple flutes

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Fipple Flutes are instruments that generate sound via a fipple, a narrow windway and a blade-like edge which sets up a standing wave down the instrument. The recorder is the most common of these instruments, their shrill ear-piercing voice often heard in schools. These are the main families and their sub-families. The oddness of some of these can be debated; recorders generally aren't odd, but the extreme sizes are.

Recorder family

Garklein [C, Lowest note, 2 octaves above middle C.]

Sopranino [F, Lowest note, 1 1/2 octaves above middle C]

Soprano or Descant [C, Lowest note, 1 octave above middle C]

Alto or Treble [F, Lowest note, 1/2 an octave above middle C]

Tenor, [C, Lowest note, middle C]

Bass [F, Lowest note, 1/2 an octave below middle C]

C bass or Great bass [C, Lowest note, 1 octave below middle C]

Contrabass [F, Lowest note, 1 1/2 octaves below middle C]

Sub-contrabass [C, Lowest note, 2 octaves below middle C]

Sub-sub-contrabass or Octo-contrabass [F, Lowest note, 2 1/2 octaves below middle C]

Tin whistle or pennywhistle family -- many sizes; most commonly:

D whistle

G whistle

Low D whistle

Tabor pipe [varying sizes]

Flageolet family

French flageolet

Bird

Traditional

Boehm System

English flageolet

Standard