| 单词 | german flute |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman flute The flute of the ancients, whether single or double, was blown through a mouthpiece at the end. About the middle of the 18th cent. this was entirely superseded by the transverse flute or German flute, which is blown through an orifice at the side near the upper end.extracted from fluten.1German flute German flute n. Music (now chiefly historical) a transverse flute (see flute n.1 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > transverse flutes German flute1718 traversière1740 flauto traverso1753 traversa1786 cross-flute1876 flûte d'amour1876 Querflöte1876 third flute1876 transverse flute1879 traverso1879 1718 Post Boy 7 Aug. (advt.) J.G. Schickhard: Solos for a German flute a hoboy or violin, with a thorough bass for the harpsicord or bass violin. 1724 C. Morris Diary 22 May (1934) 108 Mr Broad got Mr Grano to Entertain me with his Trumpet, German-Flute, & Small Flute. 1754 Earl of Chesterfield in World No. 101 (end) Upon the same shelf with their German flute, their powder-mask and their four-horse-whip. 1781 Barbados Mercury 27 Oct. Two German Flutes with silver keys, & hooped with ivory, one of a dark brown, the other a pale yellow colour. 1854 D. Robertson Laird of Logan (new ed.) 81 Legs liker twa German flutes than the limbs o' a human being. 1913 F. O'Neill Irish Minstrels & Musicians xxvii. 412 Denis Maloney was the most distinguished performer on the German flute in a family noted for its fluters. 1960 A. D. Pierce Smuggler's Woods vi. 152 There were at Nomini Hall a harpsichord, a pianoforte,..German flutes, and ‘at Williamsburg..a good Organ’. 2010 L. Marshall Louisette ix. 131 Just as long as you don't take up the bloody German Flute, you shall practise in my cabin. < as lemmas |
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