flutes

It is, however, more generally thought that it is thereby meant that he was the freedman or liberated slave of some Roman noble of the family of the Claudii.] [Footnote 17: _Treble flutes and bass flutes_) -- The history of ancient music, and especially that relative to the “tibiæ,”

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847

It's nice to have that music available again; I haven't had an opportunity to spend a lazy Sunday listening to fiddles and tin flutes since I moved out of Boston.

Web/Tech 2006

So our flutes stood in attention so they called our flutes snots and bitches and stuff.

zingerbabai Diary Entry zingerbabai 2004

No wonder, that: even the lowliest beat cop stood to preserve many times that each month by preserving the system of traffic bribes, shakedowns of neighborhood bodegas that wished to remain open in contravention of the city's labynthine Sabbath laws, in free meals and "flutes" -- Coke bottles topped off with liquor -- from their precincts 'restaurants and bars.

May 2008 2008

It's just - the flutes are a little vaporizing moment.

The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' 2007

And so the hand of a dead man, too, will in the same way be a hand in name only, just as stone flutes might still be called flutes: for these members, too, are instruments of a kind.

Meteorology 2002

In the finale we have Catharine in the mad scene, singing the scena, "L'aurora alfin succede," with bits of the old music running through the accompaniment; and in the final scene, as her reason returns, breaking out in the florid bravura, "Non s'ode alcun," accompanied by the first and second flutes, which is a triumph of virtuosity for the voice.

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

The flutes are a joint of bamboo, close at both ends, with a hole near each, and four others; two of which, and one of the first only, are used in playing.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

Normally, corrugated boards are made of one, two or three layers of columns and walls; these rows and columns are also known as flutes and liners.

Shaister Miester Do Da 2009

And the flutes were the subject of a utility patent held by plaintiff.

Chicago IP Litigation Blog 2009