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 Paggi, obtained considerable reputation, but probably the most famous of all English lady flute-players is Miss Cora Cordigan (Mrs. L. Honig), whose charming tone and brilliant execution has earned for her the title "The Queen of Flute-players." Mrs. Honig plays also the piccolo and the violin. Several other British lady flautistes of the present day deserve brief mention. Miss Erroll Stanhope (a daughter of Mr. Collard, the well-known professor of the flute), Miss Mary Woolhouse, Miss Nellie Flood-Porter, Miss N. Crump, Miss E. Penville (who has given recitals in London), Miss Elgar (sister of Mr. Eli Hudson, whose recent performances both on the flute and piccolo at the London Colisseum have attracted much attention), and Miss Elsie Wildwho originally took up the flute out of bravado, because her young brother, who played it a little, said "No girl could play it properly." Miss Wild was the first lady to play a wind instrument in the orchestra of the Royal College of Music, then under the conductorship of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. On her first appearance in the orchestra she was so terrified that she wished there was no such instrument in the world as the flute.

America has produced at least two lady flautistes of noteMiss May Lyle Smith of New York (b. 1873), who never visited England; and Miss Marguerite de Forest Andersen, a native of Maryland. The last-named lady appeared in London in 1905 and gave a recital in the Queen's