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earliest known book of instructions for the transverse flute is Hotteterre's Principés de la Flute Traversière ou Flute d'Allemagne, de la Flute-à-bec ou Flute Douce, et du Hautbois, first published by Christophe Ballard in Paris in 1707; this was re-issued in 1713, 1720, 1722, and again, with additions, in 1741. Several editions (some pirated) appeared in Amsterdam (1708, 1710, and 1728) and in London. This extremely rare little book gives full instructions, tables of fingerings, directions as to breathing, position of the player (whom he advises to practise before a mirror), and two pictures of flutes, but it contains no music. The author also wrote a number of sonatas or suites, rondos, and other short solos for one or two flutes (see p. 37 ante); trios for flute, violin, and oboe (some of which still exist in the Bibliotheque National in Paris and in Brussels, but none have ever been re-published); and "The Art of Preluding on the Transverse Flute" (1712)probably the earliest book of studies for the instrumentand a Method for the musette (1737). Hotteterre's famous work was copied, with the addition of some music (simple airs and duets, the fingering of each note being given), by Michel Corrette in his Methode pour apprendre aisément a jouer de la Flûte