Page:The story of the flute (IA storyofflute1914fitz).djvu/30

 metal (probably silver), one for each hole. These bands were each pierced with a hole to correspond with a hole in the tube, and they could be turned round so as to open or close the hole (and thus fix the mode), for which purpose they were sometimes fitted with a hook-like projection. Flutes of this description were termed "bombux"; Pausanias attributes their invention to Pronomus.

The double flute was largely used by the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and it is more frequently depicted in their works of art than the single pipe. (Fig. 3.) An Egyptian mural painting (of which a copy exists in the British Museum), dating from before 1300 B.C. represents a woman playing a double flute