Querflöte

Definition of the German term Querflöte in music:

  1. transverse flute (side-blown flute held horizontally when played)
  2. Western concert flute
  3. organ flute stop usually of 8' or 4' pitch designed to imitate the sound of the Western concert flute or its predecessors (equivalent to "Concert flute" or "Orchestral flute" in English, "Flûte traversière" in French, and "Flauto traverso" in Italian)
Language
German
Singular
Querflöte
Plural
Querflöten
Variants
QuerflötQuer-FlöteQuer-Flöt
Abbreviation
Qfl.
Synonyms

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