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Flageolet meaning
A type of small flute of the fipple family. | A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones. | A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.
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Also the Vietnamese Đàn bầu functions on flageolet tones.
Notably, the diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) and his wife were both amateur players of the flageolet, and Pepys was later an amateur recorder player.
Other characters, including Guignol's wife Madelon and the gendarme Flageolet soon followed, but these are never much more than foils for the two heroes.
This article will briefly discuss the duct flutes which have been presented as successors to the recorder: the English flageolet and the csakan, which were popular among amateurs in the second half of the 18th century, and the whole of the 19th.
Whistler's Pocket Companion By Dona Gilliam, Mizzy McCaskill The term flageolet is still preferred by some modern tin whistle who feel this better describes the instrument, as this characterises a wide variety of fipple flutes, including penny whistles.