Story of the Flute
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Fig. 17.—Giorgi's Keyless Flute.flute so as to enable it to be held straight downwards. W. Wheatstone (1820) patented a similar mouthpiece; and the idea seems to
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Fig. 16.—Signor Giorgi and his Keyless Flute.
have taken the fancy of Bohm, who says that if he were a younger man he would make a flute that could be played like a clarinet. In 1896 this device was repro-
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