Flute Links
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All the sites are in English, unless otherwise indicated.
General Flute Sites
- Flute 360 — Podcast covering a wide variety of flute-related topics.
- Flute4All — Guides on getting started with your flute playing.
- The Flute Channel — A platform to learn about flute playing.
- Claudia's Flutepage — History of the flute and facts about flutists and composers.
- Feral Flute Blog — Improvising, mythology and fluting in the woods.
- Mark Shepard’s Flute Page — Resources to learn to play the flute or make a flute.
- Flautistico.com — News and resources for flutists. In Spanish.
- Aula de Flauta — Laura Navarro's flute blog. In Spanish.
- Estudantes de Flautas-Transversal — Resources for students. In Portuguese.
Other Types of Flute
- Fujara — Majestic overtone flute.
- Flutes of the Forest — Native American style flutes hand crafted in the UK.
- American Indian Flute Music — A playlist curated by the Smithsonian Institution.
Flute Forums
- Fluteland — Flute message board.
- Chiff and Fipple — For the tin whistle, Irish flute, and other Celtic instruments.
Flute History
- Flute History — A brief history of the flute from Gemeinhardt's website.
- Flute Misnomers — The crucial distinctions between flutes, fifes and recorders.
- A 9,000-Year-Old Bone Flute — The Brookhaven National Laboratory details the discovery of one of the world’s oldest musical instruments.
- A Little Flute Music To Warm The Cave — The discovery of Ice Age flutes in the mountains of Europe.
Flute Sheet Music
- Flute Music for Beginners — Flute music downloads for absolute beginners and 1st year players, available with simple piano accompaniments.
- Wonderful Winds — Publishers of wind ensamble music.
Contemporary Composers for the Flute
- Herbert Lindholm — Aims to create music which is idiomatic for the instrument, and which is comfortably playable for the musician.
- Herman Beeftink — Composer of several pieces for the flute.
- Nelly Li Puma — Composer, conductor, pianist.
Online Flute Music
- Flute MIDI — Many MIDI files.
Flutists on the Web
- Jennifer Cluff — One of the most helpful resources for students.
- Rita D'Arcangelo — Soloist and chamber musician, Nagahara Flutes artist.
- Robert Dick — A specialist in new music and extended techniques.
- James Galway — The Man With The Golden Flute.
- Leonard Garrison — University of Idaho Flute Studio.
- Tracy Harris — Soloist, chamber musician, and clinician.
- Amanda Kanter — Classical and Irish flutist.
- Susan Milan — The “Queen of the Flute”.
- Niall O'Riordan — Proposes a completely holistic approach to flute playing.
- Nina Perlove — Home of the Real Flute Project.
- Jane Rutter — Flute Queen. Poetic Classical Free Spirit.
- Kate Steinbeck — Interpreter, passionate teacher and innovative music producer.
- Pamela Thorby — Listen to one of the world's leading recorder players.
- Trevor Wye — Flute articles and repertoire lists.
- Lee Zakian — Music lessons, solo performances, woodwind publications.
- Nilson Mascolli Filho — Laudatório Musical. In Portuguese.
Flute Orchestras
- Song of the Angels Flute Orchestra — Los Angeles.
Flute Competitions
- International Flute Competition Domenico Cimarosa — Aversa, Italy.
Flute Makers
- The Abell Flute Company — Specializes in Boehm system wooden flutes.
Flute Miscellany
- Mobile Flute Fingering Chart — Flute fingerings, trills, and alternates for your phone.
- Practical Alternate Fingerings for Flute — The fingering chart that was on Larry Krantz's website for about 20 years, courtesy of Wayne Hedrick.
- FluteSites by GetContented — Website creation service tailored to flutists.
Music Schools
- Primavolta — Mobile Music Tuition.
- Storm Dynamics Music School — Andover, Hampshire.
Music in General
- ScorSer — Multilingual sheet music search engine.
- SheetMusicSearch — Free and commercial digital sheet music and publications.
- 8notes.com — Free sheet music database.
- Melody Measures — Free sheet music repository.
- Classical Net — The Internet's premier classical music source.
- ezFolk — Folk music site.
- Free-scores.com — Also available in French.
- Bladmuziek.2link.be — Sheet music site by 2link. In Dutch.
Arrangers and transcribers
- Richard Harris — Arrangement, composition and transcription services.