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1. Flageolet
   The flageolet is an old musical wind instrument first appearing in the early 16th century and still in use until the 19th century and being the ancestor of the modern tin whistle. The flageolet is similar in shape and sound to the piccolo. It has four finger holes at the front and two thumb holes at the back.
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2. flageolet
   [n] - a French bean variety with light-colored seeds 2. [n] - a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
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3. Flageolet
   Flag'eo·let` noun [ French flageolet , dim. of Old French flaj...l (as if from a Late Latin flautio ; us ), of flaüte , flahute , French fl...te . See Flute .] (Mus.) A small wooden pip...
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4. flageolet
   A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones, the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments. ... Origin: F. Flageolet, d...
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5. flageolet
   treble recorder noun a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
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6. flageolet
   noun a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried
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7. Flageolet
   • (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.
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8. flageolet
   (from the article `speech`) ...mechanism, the latter the falsetto mechanism. In the female voice, the two lower registers behave similarly, while head voice can be only loud or ... ...almost 1,400 cycles per second sung by the Queen of the Night in Mozart`s Magic Flute. Exceptionally high soprano tones are no longer sung with ... [2 ...
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9. flageolet
   (from Old French flageol: `pipe,` or `tabor pipe`), wind instrument closely related to the recorder. Like the recorder it is a fipple, or whistle, ...
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10. flageolet
    flageolet (flăjulet') , small straight flute of conical bore, with a whistle mouthpiece. The number of finger holes varies, as does the length, which may be from 4 to 12 in (10.2–30.5 cm). The flageolet, related to the recorder, was known as early as the 16th cent., its invention in ...
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11. Flageolet
    A `flageolet` is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. Its invention is ascribed to the 16th century Sieur Juvigny in 1581. It had 4 holes on the front and 2 on the back. The English instrument maker William Bainbridge developed it further and patented the "impr...
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12. Flageolet
    (organ stop) The `Flageolet` is an organ stop belonging to the flute group of flue pipes. It is usually found in 2-feet pitch, and more rarely 1-feet pitch. The tone is generally soft in character.
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