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1. How often do the Opal Flutes rehearse?

Once a year

Fortnightly

Weekly

2. From where do the Opal Flutes get their name?

A pun on the ever popular sweets called Opal Fruits. I believe they are now called Starbursts

The various colours of Opal reflect the characters of the different flutes

From opal coloured champagne flutes

3. When playing a top C on a concert flute, how many keys need to be depressed?

Four

Five

Three

4. When playing a top D, which finger could you use to trill to an E Flat?

Left little finger

Left thumb

The right index finger

5. When playing the written note 'C' on an alto flute, which note would you actually hear?

F

G

A

6. Which of the following is not in the current Opal Flutes repertoire?

Shuffle by the Seaside

The Teddy Bears Picnic

African Noel

7. Which 1970's Dutch folk band features a flute-playing front man?

Jethro Tull

Focus

De Fluit Mensen

8. Where was the Opal Flutes' first ever performance?

St Georges Church in Catford

Open air at the South Bank

The Horniman Museum

9. Which member of the Opal Flutes does not take milk in their tea?

Sharon

Pippa

Bridget

10. What are the three main biscuits at the Opal Flutes rehearsals?

Shortcake, Custard Creams, Bourbons

Fig rolls, Digestive, Rich Tea

Fruit shortcake, Custard Creams, Rich Tea

11. Which of the following is not an abbreviation for flutter tonguing?

flt

flu

flz

12. Holst's 'The Planets' is scored for how many flutes in G?

4 players doubling 2 piccolos and a bass flute

5 players doubling 2 piccolos and a bass flute

4 players doubling a piccolo, an alto flute and a bass flute

13. Which famous flautist played on the Lord of the rings soundtrack composed by Howard Shore?

Amy Porter

Anne Noakes

James Galway

14. The main disadvantage of the hyperbass flute is:

Some of the notes are so low they are not even audible to dogs

It is in the key of F causing difficulties in transposition

Two people are needed to play it

15. A subcontra-bass flute reaches notes that are:

3 octaves below middle C

2 octaves below middle C

4 octaves below middle C

16. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel-Sachs, flutes are categorized as:

Edge-blown aerophones

Side-blown windpipes

Top-blown straighthorns

17. Which of the following was one of the earliest pieces to use a piccolo?

Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony

Beethoven's 5th symphony

Mozart's symphony no. 40

18. In comparison to a concert flute, the bass flute has:

More keys

More holes

Neither of the above

19. The bass flute is rather difficult to play in its lower octave because:

It requires of the player to hold the instrument absolutely level whilst playing

The embouchure hole may not be acoustically proportioned to the size of the rest of the instrument

Blowing too hard results in the lower notes being sharp

20. Who introduced the current western flute’s design?

The Native Americans

Sir Trevor McDonald

Theobald Boehm