Flute Description

 Ed Russel is the versatile flute player in Nevah. He has played different instruments with Nevah for over 10 years . We felt it was time to define the flute to all you bluegrass, newgrass and prograssabilly fans. It is not often you here a flute in this type of music so here goes the introductory definition for our fans.

 

                                                                   

Flute

a normally silver-plated (or in more extravagant cases, gold), narrow-bored instrument, held horizontally just under the mouth, and activated by blowing air across an aperture at one end of the instrument. Its higher-pitched cousin, the piccolo, is often encountered, although the lower alto flute rather less so. Early forebears include the unkeyed fife. The most popular close relation is the recorder family, largely unkeyed and end-blown in the vertical position.

Hope this helps put the question "What is a traditional bluegrass instrument " to rest.