Flute trivia
Did you know?
Giulio Briccialdi 1818 – 1881 was an Italian virtuoso flutist, composer, technical innovator on his instrument, and a professor of music. He invented the Bb Thumb key for the modern flute.
PROMINENT PEOPLE WHO ALSO PLAY(ED) THE FLUTE (partial list: no judgement)
Leonardo Da Vinci
Henry VIII
Frederick II ( the Great) King of Prussia
King George III
Czar Nikolas II
Napoleon
Patrick Henry
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
Noah Webster
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Stephen Foster
John Wilkes Booth
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
George Eastman ( Eastman Kodak)
Enrico Caruso
Meredith Willson ( my teacher, Paul Renzi, played on his live radio show, back in the day)
Henry Mancini
Tony Curtis
Bill Evans
Peter Gabriel
Andrea Bocelli
Sarah Palin
Dana Perino
Alyssa Milano
Halle Berry
Tina Fey
Gwen Stefani
Oscar Robertson
Ellen Ochoa (astronaut)
Callista Flockhart
Kate Middleton
Colonel Catherine "Cady" Coleman (astronaut)
Roger Daltry
Tyler McAtee ( senior software engineer, Apple Watch 4)
