CHAPTER XVI.
FLUTE IN AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.
Early notices and players—Later players of foreign origin—Ernst—Introduction of the Böhm flute—Native American players—Kyle—Lemmone.
The flute has always been quite a popular instrument in the United States of America, and The American Musical Journal of 1834 mentions that theEarlyNotices and
Players amateurs of the flute in New York were numerous, and that many had attained considerable proficiency. In the eighteenth century the churches in Boston usually supplied the place of an organ by a flute, bassoon, and violoncello. The names of some of the early performers have been preserved. The Pennsylvania Gazette of 1749 contains an advertisement of "John Beals, music-master from London in his house Fourth Street, near Chestnut Street," as a teacher of both the German flute and common flute (i.e., Recorder), and specially mentions that he will attend young ladies at their houses: possibly the fair dames of Boston favoured the flute. In Philadelphia, James Bremner taught the German flute in 1763; and Ernest Barnard, George D'Eissenberg, and John Stadler played it in the principal concerts in that
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