(wassar) the flute is really a very simple instrument. what makes it different from other woodwind instruments, like a recorder, is that instead of blowing down the instrument, you're actually blowing transversely. you're blowing across the embouchure hole just the way you would blow across a soda bottle. [lilting flute music] (greer) in the early 19th century, late 18th century, flutes were very simple. they had one key or two keys, if any, and they were hard to play in tune with themselves or with anyone else in a small orchestra, and consequently, they had a reputation for being whistle-like and not real sonorous or real colorful. this is the most simplistic of what we call transverse flutes, and it just has the six finger holes and one key for the pinky. the natural scale on the baroque flute is basically the position of the six fingers and the six holes so that if you lift up your fingers in order, you get what we call a major scale. [plays major scale] so when you were playing in pieces that required notes that weren't in that parti