Flageolet Collection

Various musical instruments

Stevenson Bed Flageolet
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Scottish writer and poet playing the flageolet in bed in Vailima

Variety of runner bean, Phaseolus vulgaris
Variety of runner bean, Haricot flageolet beurre sanguin a rames, Phaseolus vulgaris. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1884

Musicians seated on barrels, Brittany, Northern France
Two musicians seated on top of barrels, Brittany, Northern France. They are playing the native bagpipe or biniou (right) and a flageolet (left). 1922

Man playing tin whistle, Agra, India - 1
Indian tin whistle player with a luxuriant silver beard, and wearing a deep blue turban, plays his tin whistle in Agra, India Date: 1986

Man playing tin whistle, Agra, India - 2
Indian tin whistle player with a luxuriant silver beard, and wearing a deep blue turban, plays his tin whistle in Agra, India Date: 1986

Nose Flute of Keiling
John Keiling, known as Blind Jack, attracts charity in the streets of London by playing the flageolet with his nose, though this distorts his face, Date: early 18th century

Flageolets - the last example in present use of the flutes douces or a bec which were so popular in the 17th century. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary (20th January)

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