Editing Flute (section)

====Concert variants====
[[File:Joueuse de flûte à Château-Thierry.jpg|thumb|right|Center: Piccolo. Right: larger flute]]
The [[piccolo]] plays an octave higher than the regular treble flute. Lower members of the flute family include the [[Alto flute|G alto]] and [[Bass flute|C bass]] flutes that are used occasionally, and are pitched a perfect fourth and an octave below the concert flute, respectively. The [[Contra-alto flute|contra-alto]], [[Contrabass flute|contrabass]], [[Subcontrabass flute|subcontrabass]], [[Double contrabass flute|double contrabass]], and [[Hyperbass flute|hyperbass]] flutes are other rare forms of the flute pitched up to four octaves below middle C.

Other sizes of flutes and piccolos are used from time to time. A rarer instrument of the modern pitching system is the G [[treble flute]]. Instruments made according to an older pitch standard, used principally in wind-band music, include D{{music|flat}} piccolo, E{{music|flat}} [[soprano flute]] (Keyed a minor 3rd above the standard C flute), F alto flute, and B{{music|flat}} bass flute.