Hm... what would the pokéflute sound like if it was built in reality?
The one that appeared in X&Y reminisces a recorder and has 7 holes like one,
but what about the ball? How would THAT influence the sound?
Oboes do, have a ball-like bell(or however you call it)...
also, what about the material? Is it tin? Or brass?
OKay, someone has 3d-printed one, and apparently it won't work. Someone commented the thing needs a recorder's file,
and it ought make a sound, however there was no reply and thus far I can find no footage of a proper poké-flute.
I found a couple other legitimate-looking pokéflutes, but one was a recorder with a few holes covered by a toy poké-ball,
and the other was a tin whistle with a poké-ball on the end, so those don't count.
In FRLG, HGSS and XY, the pokéflute uses the regular flute soundfonts, whereas on Snap it sounds quite like a Pan flute.
The first time it appeared in the animé, it sounded like an organ, and there's a thing I wish to type in regard :
day ago I had ma listen to the Bressan recorder from the "Early Music Ensemble" soundfonts collection in the demonstrative videogram,
and she claimed it kinda sounded like an organ. Perhaps not a drawbar or a sizeable pipe organ, but in the demo video there was the soundfont
of a salon organ, and the resemblance was UNCANNY.