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French flageolet

Boxwood pipes and mouthpiece; stock of darker brown wood: three pipes of equal length inserted side by side in a rectangular stock, the centre pipe that of a keyless French flageolet with four almost equal finger holes and two thumb holes; the outer pipes without finger holes or communicating passages in the stock though themselves functional.

  • Date:
    mid 19th century
  • Maker:
    Laussedat
  • Collection:
    Royal College of Music Museum
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  • Place of production:
    Clermont Ferrand
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  • Inscriptions:On centre pipe: "LAUSSEDAT / [quatrefoil mark]"
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  • Repository:Royal College of Music Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 368mm.