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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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3Double Flageolet, in c''. This curious old instrument, the prototype of the elaborate double flageolets of the early part of this century, is made from a single piece of wood. There are two channels pierced parallel, and both sounded by whistles. The two tubes are pitched a third apart, the lowest notes being
5The larger pipe is placed on the player's right. There are seven holes to each pipe in front, and they are placed in pairs side by side. There are two holes, one for each pipe, at the back. Length 12 inches. Diameter of right-hand tube, at bell 7/16 inch, at lip 9/16 inch; of left-hand tube at bell 3/8 inch, at lip 1/2 inch. Plate IV., fig. H.
7There is a representation of a double flageolet of this kind in the Encyclopédie Méthodique of 1785.
9Lent by the Grossherzogliches Museum, Darmstadt.
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13Double Flageolet, in c''. Of boxwood, with two parallel tubes, of unequal length, fixed in the same stock. The left tube is pierced with seven finger-holes, and has two silver keys, which give d'' and e''b. The tube on the right hand has four finger-holes, with an additional hole for the little finger, and three silver keys giving c''', b'', and the e''b below. The lowest note upon the instrument is
15It was probably made by Bainbridge about 1810, but it is stamped "Metzler, London, 105, Wardour Street. Patent." In this instrument, and also in all of the double flageolets described hereafter, either tube can be silenced at will by a cut-off shutter, which acts upon the whistle. Length 15 3/4 inches.
17Lent by T. L. Southgate, Esq.
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