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Alto flutes are in the key of G. It will not work on your C flute unless you transpose it.

Thank you very much.

Is alto flute in the key of 'c' like a normal flute? In our pit orchestra music, one of the flute parts is supposed to be played by an alto flute which we don't have. So I was wondering if I should play it or if it's not in the same key so I shouldn't.

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Wow! Thank you very much! I tried your suggestions during pit orchestra practice today and it worked much better! You have no clue how much you've helped me! (^_^) I've been so stressed about this lately and I can finally relax.

Thank you very much. I will try that.

I just saw that there are a bunch of topics about this already. Oops. Sorry. I just have one question: It's definitely not normal for it to take this long (I've had braces for about a year now) to get used to playing flute with braces. I'm thinking it might be my flute...(marching band can really de...

I got braces awhile ago and I still have problems playing certain notes on my flute. It's starting to worry me since I'm in my school's pit orchestra for the musical and I don't want to ruin the show which is coming up in just over a month. The notes that seem to be bothering me are high c, high d f...

and a high D Flat-half a step above the C? Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know any somewhat easy-to-play alternate fingerings for a high c? (c6 I think)

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Can anyone send me a link to a flute trill chart? Thanks!