English flageolet

English flageolet (Ger.: englische Doppelflöte), name given to the early-19th-c. flageolets made by William Bainbridge of London from 1803 on, and patented in 1803, 1807, 1810, 1819. Bainbridge produced: 1. single flageolets similar in form to the Fr. flageolet, with sponge chamber, 6 front fingerholes, and a rear thumbhole (sometimes a seventh fingerhole for e#1), in D major, 2. *double flageolets, with single mouthpiece, sponge chamber, the left pipe with 7 fingerholes and a thumbhole, the…