Transverse flute

A transverse flute or side-blown flute is a flute which is held horizontally when played. The player blows across the embouchure hole, in a direction perpendicular to the flute's body length.

Transverse flutes include the Western classical flutes, the Indian classical flutes (the bansuri and the venu), the Chinese dizi, the Western fife, a number of Japanese fue, and Korean flutes such as Daegeum, Junggeum and Sogeum.

Renaissance music

Movements and schools	Burgundian English madrigals Franco-Flemish Roman Venetian

Musical instruments	Bagpipes Celtic harp Cittern Cornett Harp Harpsichord Hornpipe Hurdy-gurdy Jaw harp Kit violin Lute Mandora Mandore Pan flute Pochette Recorder Reed pipe Sackbut Shawm Slide trumpet Tambourine Theorbo Transverse flute Trumpet Vihuela Viol Violin Virginals

Musical forms	Carol Madrigal Magnificat Mass Offertory Pavane

National and regional traditions	British Cyprus Elizabethan France Germany Italy Netherlands Poland Portugal Spain

Related articles	List of Renaissance composers

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Transverse flute

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