Flute Lore

Theobald Friedrich Boehm (1794-1881), the man behind the modern flute (Western Concert Flute). He was born April 9, 1794–Munich Bavaria, Germany–the son of the goldsmith Karl Boehm. As most boys of the early eighteen-hundreds, he learned his father’s trade.
Boehm was very interested in flutes, and soon he had used his gold smithing skills to create […]

The ‘Western Concert Flute‘ is the type of flute played in an orchestra.
When one pictures the word ‘flute,’ in their mind, one of the pictures that may come to mind is this: a long silver tube with many thin rods, openings of different sizes, and an embouchere hole (this is the place that the […]