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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891

16 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. Printed page 15. See the scan on archive.org.

1and general design prove it to be French, and it dates probably from the latter end of the 18th century. Plate II., fig. D.
2Lent by G. Donaldson, Esq.
424.
5Bass Galoubet, in c'. This very rare instrument is of wood, and has been most carefully restored. There are two finger-holes upon one side and a thumb-hole upon the other. The instrument is played with a brass crook. The lowest note is
7Length, not including crook, 30 inches, diameter of bore 11/16 inch. The bell of the instrument opens out to 3/4 inch. The length of the crook is 23 1/2 inches.
8Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
1025.
11Flageolet. Of boxwood, tipped with ivory. There are four finger-holes in front and two at the back, also four brass cup-shaped keys on knobs, giving d''# and a'#, the two others being shake keys. The lowest note is g'', and there is a compass of two chromatic octaves and three semitones. Stamped "D'Almaine & Co., late Goulding & D'Almaine, Soho, London." Length 14 1/4 inches, diameter at bell 7/16 inch, at lip 1/2 inch.
12This instrument, now known as the French flageolet, preserved the peculiar fingering of the original instrument, invented in the 16th century, and described in the Pleasant Companion for the Flageolet in 1682. The French flageolet is not a transposing instrument, but simply a flageolet in c''' descending to g'', which is written
14the music for the flageolet being written an octave below the real sounds. The ordinary flageolet is merely a small flûte-à-bec, or even flûte traversière, played with a whistle.
15Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.

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