A Treatise on the Construction, the History and the Practice of the Flute: Including a Sketch of the Elements of Acoustics and Critical Notices of Sixty Celebrated Flute-players |
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air-column air-reed altered aperture appear BASS FLUTE bb key Boehm bore cause chromatic scale circa clarionet closed key Côche column of air concert-flute considered contrivance cork cylindrical described diameter distance effect eight-keyed flute embouchure engraving equal temperament extra f key Filippo Bonanni finger-holes flat Flûte flûte d'amour flute-player foot-joint fork g hole German Flute gives Gordon harmonic head-joint Hotteterre improvement inch instrument intonation invention lateral aperture left hand thumb length lever lips London means meantone temperament mentioned Mersenne metal Méthode Monzani mouth-hole musical necessary node note-hole notes octave open end open key Paris patent perfect performer pipe pitch placed player position Pottgiesser Pottgiesser's produced quality of tone Quantz rendered Ribock right hand Rudall and Rose Salomon de Caus scale second joint second octave semitone shake sound string Theobald Boehm third joint third octave tion transverse flute Tromlitz tube tuning slide upper end vent-hole vibrations wind-instruments