Flue Stops
Organ stops, the pipes of which are constructed on the same principle as the whistle or flageolet.
Flute, Flauto (It.) (flau-to), Flöte (Ger.) (flateh). (I) One of the most important of orchestral instruments; a cylindrical tube blown at a hole in the side called the embouchure. The modern flute, constructed on the Boehm system, is very much superior to the older instrument in both tone and tune. Its compass is from 8va.
A (2) An organ-stop of 8 or 4-foot pitch; in French organs a general name for flue stops.
Finck, H. T. Essayist. B. 1854.
Fioravanti, V. (fee-o-rah-van-tee). Composer; Italy. B. 1770; d. 1837. Flotow, F. F. A. Opera composer; Germany. B. 1812; d. 1883. Foerster, Adolph M. Composer; U. S. A.
B. 1854.
FORLANA There are many varieties of the flute, the major part of which are now either obsolete or used as names for organ-stops, as flauto traverso, transvere or German flute; flute d'amour, a soft-toned organ-stop: flute harmonique, an overblown flute, the pipe of which is twice the length necessary to pro、 duce the sound it is made to give.
F moll. F minor.