Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. aerophones

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Sound Devices
5. sound devices
6. sound devices by function
7. musical instruments
8. wind instruments
9. woodwind instruments

Narrower term/s

• multiple flutes[+]
  • panpipes [+]
    • obuleres
    • nais (panpipes)
  • dvojnices
  • gling-bus
  • dvojankas
• duct flutes[+]
  • flageolets [+]
    • French flageolets
    • English flageolets [+]
      • triple flageolets
  • nose flutes
  • whistles [+]
    • boatswains' whistles
    • calliope whistles
    • musical whistle
  • dvojnices [NP]
  • fipple flutes [+]
    • recorders (flutes) [+]
      • soprano recorders
      • tenor recorders
      • alto recorders
      • bass recorders
    • Picco pipes
    • tabor pipes [+]
      • chûrulas
      • txistus
    • penny whistles
    • pincullos
  • suling
  • courting flutes
  • fujaras
  • dvojankas [NP]
  • palweis
  • one-hand flutes
• flutes without duct[+]
  • vertical flutes [+]
    • alamorus
    • cone flutes
    • quenas
    • nays
    • shakuhachi
    • kavals
    • xiao
    • ombgwes
    • khumbgwes
    • ʻanfītas
    • putorino
  • vessel flutes [+]
    • ocarinas
    • ngurus (flutes)
  • transverse flutes [+]
    • fifes
    • piccolos (flutes)
    • dizi (flutes)
    • flûtes d'amour
    • ryuteki
    • bansuris
    • nokan
    • tshitiringos
    • naka ya lethlake
    • fuye
    • sopilkas
    • Baroque traversos
• pipettes (aerophones)

Anotations

Scope note:

Generally refers to any musical wind instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe of wood, metal, or another material, with holes along its length that are stopped by the fingers or by keys that are opened by the fingers. Although most flutes are tubular, some are globular (as with a gourd flute). A flute is sounded by a stream of air from the player's lips striking against the sharp edge of an opening, breaking the air up and vibrating within the enclosed space. The air may be blown in from an end or from the side, depending upon the type of flute. Many, but not all, modern flutes are equipped with the Boehm system of keywork.