The alto flute, however, is a more graceful, slower-moving bird from the nearby lake that swings by now and then.

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" The lowest note of the fourth flute, a B-flat, is a fourth higher than the lowest note of the regular alto recorder, which is referred to by the English as the "common flute.

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