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 open or close the tuning-slide whilst playing. He also devised a mouthpiece to be attached to the end of the flute so as to enable it to be held straight downwards. W. Wheatstone (1820) patented a similar mouthpiece; and the idea seems to have taken the fancy of Bohm, who says that if he were a younger man he would make a flute that could be played like a clarinet. In 1896 this device was