History of the Boehm Flute With Illustrations Exemplifying Its Origin by Progressive Stages, and an Appendix Containing the Attack Originally Made on Boehm, and Other Papers Relating to the Boehm-Gordon Controversy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of the Boehm Flute: With Illustrations Exemplifying Its Origin by Progressive Stages, and an Appendix Containing the Attack Originally Made on Boehm, and Other Papers Relating to the Boehm-Gordon Controversy If not the last, who saw Boehm before his death. I complied with the suggestion he made, and it having thus become known that I was the writer, several brother amateur flute-players, who did not take in the Musical Standard, expressed a wish to have what I had written, and I promised to get a few copies of the two articles printed separately, for private distribution. I also determined to take the opportunity of making a revision of the text, rendered necessary by the results of renewed and more careful researches. Moreover, as I had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.