Roue flamande

Roue flamande (Fr.: Flemish wheel), an 18th-c. degeneration of the horologium or rota campanarum, a noisy child's toy made of a wheel strung with small bells and turned on an axle. Cf. ruota fiamminga, hoepelspel (124). Laborde, Jean Benjamin de. Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne. Paris, 1780.