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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1near the stopped end, and six finger holes. Such a form, owing to the partial closing at the mouth-hole, does not give the octaves obtained by overflowing true to their primes, and the correction of this defect resulted in the "cone" flute in which the lower two-thirds of the tube is slightly conical. About the middle of last century Theobald Boehm reverted to the cylindrical form for this portion of the flute, and obtained the necessary correction of intonation by giving a conical bore with a slight parabolic curvature to the head end of the instrument. He also devised or systematized principles of key work which have gradually come into very general use, so that his "cyclinder" flute, more or less modified, now holds the chief position among orchestral players: the "cone" flute being used principally in military bands.
3The sum of the matter and the final result of the various changes during the last three or four hundred years is the disappearance of the recorder, the elimination of the "fipple" flute, and the acceptance of the transverse flute as the only form of the instrument suitable for artistic purposes.
5Reed Instruments.
7In reed instruments there is no such simplicity as has been noticed in the flutes, for although certain old forms as the krumm-horn or Cromorne have passed out of use, their places have been taken by others, and our present reed instruments cover a wide field, both in compass and variety of quality. Of the double reed, the mediaeval shawm has resulted in the delicate modern oboe, and the pommers in the bassoons and contra-fagotti. These are conical instruments in which the octave and twelfth of the prime can be produced as on the flute. The saxophones form the most modern family of conical reed instruments, and these have single reeds, much like those of the clarionet, and by these a new quality of tone has been introduced midway in character between the general "wood-wind" tone and the "brass."
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