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English flute

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noun

  1. music another name for recorder

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The nehiloth appear from the root חלל‎, to bore through, and in Piel, to play the flute, to be the same instruments as the n�-y of the Arabs, similar to the English flute, blown, not transversely as the German flute, but at the end, as the oboe.

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