Berlioz Posted April 8, 2006 Posted April 8, 2006 Ok, I got mixed up... What exactly is the sounding range of a flute?? I know it starts at middle C, but does it sound an octave below what's written?? Or the opposite?? Plus, when I use my keyboard to write the notes of a flute in Finale the program automatically pulls them up one octave.. I'm confused!!
J. Lee Graham Posted April 8, 2006 Posted April 8, 2006 I'm not sure what's going on with your keyboard interface - I wish I could get mine to work. The compass of the flute is middle-C to one octave above high-C - a total of 3 octaves. It is written exactly as it sounds. You may be thinking of the piccolo, which has a compass an octave higher than the flute and sounds an octave higher than written.
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