Waldflöte

Waldflöte organ stop built in several forms: 1. as a cylindrical Hohlflöte, of open metal flue pipes at 2′ and 1⅓′, later of wood at 8′ and 4′ with wide mouths; 2. of inverted conical open pipes of medium scale at 2′, 1⅓′, and 1′ pitches, also a Hohlflöte; 3. Portunal at 8′ pitch; 4. stop of wide-scaled conical flue pipes: its usual form today. Also called flautino, silvestris, tibia silvestris, Waldpfeife. The Engl. waldflute is always made of wood; the pipes are of wide scale, open, with…