Double flageolet

Double flageolet (Fr.: flageolet double; Ger.: Doppelflageolet), double whistle flute, pop. in past centuries, made either of 2 separate pipes or of 2 bores pierced in a single block of wood, mentioned from the 13th c. on (as flajos doubliers in Fr. literature) and often depicted during the Middle Ages. Samuel Pepys wrote in 1668 of “two pipes of the same note, fastened together, so I can play on one and then echo it upon the other.” In the early 19th c. William Bain-bridge took out several…