Real recorded flute notes on a piano keyboard: click, touch or type, and the flute answers. The flute is a woodwind even though it is made of metal - the family is defined by how the sound is made, not by the material. Free, nothing to install, with note names, your computer keyboard and a metronome.
Recorded notes, the flute's own range, and the keyboard you already know.
Every key plays a recording of a real flute: 10 notes from C4 to C7, each key pitched from the nearest one. The flute is woodwind instrument without a reed: air blown across the edge of the mouth hole, with no reed at all; the keys open and close holes along the metal tube to change the note.
The keyboard covers C4 to C7, where the recordings sound natural; a real flute plays C4 to about C7. Use the octave arrows to move, and More keys on a wide screen.
Play in the middle and upper part of the keyboard, and leave short gaps between phrases, as a flautist breathes. The note sounds as long as you hold the key, like a bow or a breath.
Famous flute music: Debussy, Syrinx; Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Mozart, Flute Concerto in G; Bach, Partita in A minor for solo flute. Pick out a melody by ear on the keyboard above.
Click or touch a key. The first note starts the sound; the flute recordings for the visible keys load in the background.
A S D F G H J K L play the white keys, W E T Y U O P the black ones (Q and Z on AZERTY). Z and X move an octave (W and X on AZERTY).
Set Labels to C D E or Do Ré Mi to see every note name, or to Keys to see your own keyboard letters.
Turn on the metronome and play along. Then try the same melody on the clarinet or the piano.
| Type | Sampled flute, playable on this page, free |
|---|---|
| Family | Woodwinds - woodwind instrument without a reed |
| Samples | 10 recorded notes, C4 to C7 |
| Range here | C4 to C7 |
| Real range | C4 to about C7 |
| Notation | Treble clef |
| Controls | Labels, octave arrows, More keys and a metronome |
| Computer keyboard | Ableton layout by key position - QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ |
| Credits | Flute samples from tonejs-instruments by Nicholas Brosowsky, CC BY 3.0 - see credits |
| Requirements | Any modern browser with Web Audio - Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari |
Most online instruments are a synthesiser with a picture on top. This one plays recordings of a real flute, so the attack, the tone and the decay are the instrument's own. The flute is a woodwind even though it is made of metal - the family is defined by how the sound is made, not by the material.
Flutes are among the oldest instruments: bone flutes more than 35,000 years old have been found in Germany. The modern metal flute is the work of Theobald Boehm, who designed its key system in 1847.
A real flute is written in treble clef. The keyboard here plays the sounding notes, so a melody you find by ear is the melody you hear. To go further, the free sheet music and chord pages work with any instrument you can read music on.
Yes. Every key plays a recording of a real flute - 10 notes from C4 to C7 - pitched to the nearest key. The recordings come from the tonejs-instruments library, under a Creative Commons licence.
Yes. The middle row of letters plays the white keys and the row above it the black keys, by key position, so it works the same on QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards. Set Labels to Keys to see the letters on the keys.
A flute plays C4 to about C7. On this page the keyboard goes from C4 to C7, where the recordings sound natural.
Debussy, Syrinx; Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Mozart, Flute Concerto in G; Bach, Partita in A minor for solo flute.
Yes, free with no account and nothing to install. It runs in any modern browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
The flute on this page is free, with no account. GOONS Studio adds a sampled piano, drum machines, synths and a sequencer in the browser - free for 7 days, no card required.
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