A Breath Flute

Fingering alone is silent. Hold a hole, then blow into your microphone — or hold Space. Blow harder and the tone brightens, not just loudens: the air, the overtones and the membrane's colour are all synthesized live in the page, never replayed. No microphone? Press "Hear it".

Turn on the microphone to blow with your breath, or just hold Space.

Flute photograph: a Chinese dizi from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons, released underCC0 1.0; cut from its backdrop for use here. Background painted in SVG. Sound synthesized with the Web Audio API.