flute-like sound

This flute is an early four-joint flute

Due to the wide inner cone its tone resembles that of an ocarina

overblowing in the first octave produces sounds that are out of tune and can

Like the original

Buffardin Le Fils Transverse Flute by Martin Wenner natural wood flute-like soundPierre Gabriel Buffardin (ca. 1690 1768) was one of the most famous flutists of his time and a pioneer of the transverse flute in Germany. From 1715 to 1749, he was the first flutist of the Dresden Hofkapelle, one of the best and most famous orchestras of the time. Buffardin was a colleague of Pisendel, Veracini, Weiss and also Quantz, whom he taught. It was believed that none of Buffardin's instruments survived until, in 2015, a very old and