Before you visit and links to other websites, you might also like to see information about books and recorded music which relate to flageolets.
General Information:
- The BBC has a good, if slightly confused article on the Flageolet and its history:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A301852
- This site has four pictures, apparently the same as those in Sterling Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments:
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http://www.musicologie.org/sites/flageolet.html
- The definitive Tin Whistle Site:
- http://www.chiffandfipple.com/
- Another good site for the Tin Whistle:
- http://www.geocities.com/whistleannex/index.html
- “Iconographie de la cornemuse inventaire des representations conservees en France” contains two pages (in French) on the Flageolet, with a very useful facsimile of two pages of Meissonnier’s “Méthod pour le flageolet”:
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http://jeanluc.matte.free.fr/articles/typologie/flagmeth.htm, http://jeanluc.matte.free.fr/articles/typologie/flageolet.htm
- “Virtifolk” has an annotated picture of an interesting English Flageolet:
- http://vitrifolk.apinc.org/instruments-flageolet.html
- “Elstub” has uploaded the plates from Carse’s Musical Wind Instruments which includes several flageolets:
- http://www.elstub.com.au/history.htm
- This Encyclopaedia article is interesting in that it has a line drawing of someone playing a flageolet:
- http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/V2.HTM
Flageolet stockists:
New:
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For Penny, Tin and Low Whistles, see the Chiff and Fipple guides:
- http://www.chiffandfipple.com/
- Alba Whistles make metal English Flageolets:
- http://www.albawhistles.com/
- Charles Wells makes early French Flageolets:
- http://www.kawells.fsnet.co.uk/flageolet.htm
Second–hand:
- Jean Michel Renard:
- http://www.renard-music.com/
- Early Music Shop (see “Antique Instruments” under “Used Instrument Agency”):
- http://www.e-m-s.com/
- Pamela’s Music:
- http://www.pamelasmusic.co.uk/wind.htm
- Vintage Instruments:
- http://www.vintage-instruments.com/
- Hobgoblin (see “Used Instruments”):
- http://www.hobgoblin.com/
- Tony Bingham:
- http://www.oldmusicalinstruments.co.uk/index.php
Repairers:
- Hobgoblin:
- http://www.hobgoblin.com/
Collections:
- The Dayton Miller Flute Collection is the largest on-line collection of flageolets. Its website is worth exploring at length:
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dcmhtml/dmhome.html
- The Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments contains a good selection of pictures of Flageolets:
- http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ucat.html
- The Bate Collection in the Ashmolean has several likewise:
- http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/BCMIPage.html
- Ditto the Eddy Collection at Duke:
- http://www.duke.edu/music/eddy/flutes.html
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
- http://www.mfa.org/home.htm and http://www.mfa.org/artemis/results.asp?am=&ca=&cp=3&cu=&op=&pk=10105&sd=0&so=2
- The Henry Luce III Collection has a flageolet:
- http://luceweb.nyhistory.org/luceweb/item_detail.htm?qmkey=20833
- The Castle Museum York, likewise:
- http://freespace.virgin.net/cade.york/limen/music/cmclist.htm
Flageolet Recordings:
- Mats Gustafsson, a jazz saxophonist and flageolet player:
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/~ps/efi/mgustafs.html
- Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells has a devoted following at:
- http://tubular.net/
- This CD includes a Double-Flageolet:
- http://habidabad.com/soundtrack.htm
Flageolet Quotations:
- Berlioz on the Flageolet:
- http://www.hberlioz.com/Scores/edu.htm
- An open access annotated copy of Pepys’ Diary, with specific reference to the flageolet:
- http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/783.php
- Stephen Foster apparently played the flageolet too:
- http://www.bobjanuary.com/foster/sf7.htm
- The National Music Museum has a page discussing Berlioz and his attitude towards the flageolet. It also includes a picture of an early French Flageolet. However, despite the caption, the instrument is a normal Flageolet and not a Bird-Flageolet:
- http://www.usd.edu/smm/Exhibitions/BeethovenBerlioz/BBflageolet.html
Other Musical Sites:
- Oddmusic is a site devoted to experimental and otherwise unusual music and musical instruments:
- http://www.oddmusic.com
- A good set of links to early music sites.
- http://ockeghem.medieval.org/emfaq/instr/
