Flageolet in C?
Flageolets are structured like recorders but built in small if not very small sizes and narrow bores. 17th-century pieces with a very narrow cylindrical bore, four front and two thumb holes, were often used help teaching birds to sing--canaries, nightingales, larches, etc.--but also to catch them. Opera composers called for them in garden and grove scenes.
Artwork Details
- Title: Flageolet in C?
- Date: 17th century
- Geography: Nürnberg?, Germany
- Culture: German
- Medium: ivory
- Dimensions: L. 6-3/8 in. (162 mm.)
- Classification: Aerophone-Whistle Flute-flageolet
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 89.4.915
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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