The Pleasant Companion: or New Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet [SIC]
The flageolet was a popular instrument from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Amateur musicians found it easy to keep in tune and easy to learn. Instruction books such as Bainbridge and Wood’s Flageolet Tutor (London, ca. 1805) advertised that the instrument was “so easy that those who wish to study Music can, without the assistance of a Master, learn to play scientifically.” Miller noted that his own copy of another flageolet tutor, The Pleasant Companion, “is a very rare edition and is not in the Library of the British Museum, that copy being dated 1682.”
The flageolet was a popular instrument from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Amateur musicians found it easy to keep in tune and easy to learn. Instruction books such as Bainbridge and Wood’s <em>Flageolet Tutor</em> (London, ca. 1805) advertised that the instrument was “so easy that those who wish to study Music can, without the assistance of a Master, learn to play scientifically.” Miller noted that his own copy of another flageolet tutor, <em>The Pleasant Companion</em>, “is a very rare edition and is not in the Library of the British Museum, that copy being dated 1682.”