Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Flageolet
- Instrument.background
- woodwind
- Instrument.image
- French_and_english_flageolets.jpg
- Instrument.classification
- Woodwind Wind Aerophone
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 421.222.12
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Open flute with internal duct and fingerholes
- Instrument.range
- 200px
- Instrument.developed
- 1600s
- Instrument.related
- Simple-system flute Pipe and tabor Shvi tin whistle
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- Design
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- Other uses
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The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the family of duct flutes that includes recorders and tin whistles. There are two basic forms of the instrument: the French, having four finger holes on the front and two thumb holes on the back; and the English, having six finger holes on the front and sometimes a single thumb hole on the back. The latter was developed by English instrument maker William Bainbridge, resulting in the "improved English flageolet" in 1803. There are also double and triple flageolets, having two or three bodies that allowed for a drone and countermelody. Flageolets were made until the 19th century.