I would normally not post this to avoid tipping everyone of to an item someone might bid on, but the seller can’t spell. Everyone might miss it in that case.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1513997678
Will only post US though. I assume it’s a whistle but it looks like a kids first Bombarde with out the reed.
It’s a whistle with a funny plastic bell on the bottom.
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I know what it is because I have one.. with the music that came with it. Copyright 1958 Instruction Booklet for Flageolets, by Educational Sales Co, 50 Rose Apple Rd, Levittown PA. On the back of the booklet is an ad for the instrument pictured. “The Flageolet” as it is called in the booklet was 95 cents. Additional booklets were available for 35 cents (I have the folk song duets too) and there were phonograph records too. You had to pay 20 cents additional for postage.
Nancy, what is the sound like? What key? Not that I’m terribly interested in acquiring the instrument, but those of us who are collectors might be interested.
It’s a cheap '50s whistle which apparently filled the grammar school role that the plastic recorder does today. The ‘bell’ is a non-functional disc of plastic that is apparently supposed to be decorative, so what you really have is just an open tin tube.
For quality, it’s well below the worst Generation or Clarke, about the same as the cheap tin pennywhistles they sell at historic site gift shops. You can play it. You can also play the kazoo.
I bought one a year or so ago and eventually gave it to a careless nephew with the promise that if he can learn to play a tune on it I’ll give him a real one.
It is sort of in D, very thin aluminum tube with a really large window. It sounds horrible, thin and weak, hard to control. The one I have is deformed around each tone hole as if it were “pressed” more than “drilled” on the drill press. Amusing but worthless IMHO.