Flavel

Flavel [Lat. flabellum, bellows], OFr.: wind instr. mentioned infrequently in the 13th and 14th c. The Roman de la rose (ca. 1280) uses the expression “flavel de Cornouailles,” possibly a bagpipe or bladder pipe (197, 204). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Wartburg, Walther von. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 1928. Wright, Rowland. Dictionnaire des instruments de musique. London, 1941.