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 alone or in combination with string's or pianoforte, or both.

It would, however, be a mistake to suppose that no flute music of this class has been bequeathed to us by the famous composers of the past. Bach, Handel,

Brown having unguardedly confessed to being musical, his friend Wiffles offers to come and bring three other fellows and play some beautiful Flute Quartetts in his rooms. Poor Brown says he never sat for hours in such a thorough draught in his life.(Reproduced from Punch, April 30th, 1870, by the kind permission of the Proprietors.)

Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart have each contributed two or three items. The last named assigns the leading part in two of his quartetts to the flute, humorously heading the finale to one thus: "Allegretto grazioso,