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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 91
Hohlflote-Hohlpfeife. Anglice Hohlflute, Hohl Flute.
Hohl = hollow. 8 ft.; also occasionally 16 ft.; 4 ft.; 2 ft.
Hohlflote
(metal).
The Hohlflute is a stop composed of pipes of
fair scale, usually, though not invariably, made of
wood. The German variety is of thick tone re-
sembling more closely the Clarabella than the
English Hohlflute. The latter stop may be said
to date from the time when William Hill, whose
work is a monument to his genius, bored two
holes through the top of a wood pipe (obtaining a
variety of Keraulophon-Flute tone) and labelled it
Hole-Flute! A stop named Hohlflote 4 ft., of
similar construction, occurs on the Choir organ at
St. Mary, Nottingham (Bishop). Query! Which
is right, Hole Flute or Hohl Flute ?
Father Smith's Hoi-Flute (Temple Organ) was
a Rohrflbte. The modern English Hohlflute (dis-
tinct of course from the Hole-Flute above mentioned)
differs from the Clarabella in possessing a harder
and less thick tone, a quality, it may be added,
very rare in Germany, but none the less, on that
account, valuable and intrinsically beautiful. The
mouths are sometimes inverted. They have even
been made slanting (i.e., falling obliquely across the
pipe front), with the object of increasing their
breadth, though the results of such treatment are
not altogether satisfactory. Some builders (e.g.,
Messrs. Norman & Beard, and Mr. John Whiteley),
sometimes cover the lips of this stop with cartridge
paper, ensuring thereby smoothness and roundness
of tone. The Hohlflute is generally made with a sunk
block or " well." This has the effect of rendering
the tone more hollow. The sunk block is also used
for other Flute tones. A sunk block is shown in
the illustration of the Flauto Traverso pipe (q.v.).
(Ger.)
Triangular
Flute
(inverted
mouth).
At Doncaster, Schulze introduced, for the first time in this country, a
triangular Hohlflote. It is sometimes claimed that the tone of triangular
pipes differs from anything that can be obtained from pipes of rectangular
construction. Be this as it may, by careful attention to the width of mouth
of the latter pattern of stop, a tone quality may be obtained practically
indistinguishable, even by trained ears, from that of the other. Triangular
pipes are very troublesome to make. In instruments by Messrs. Forster &
Andrews triangular Hohlflotes, made to Schulze's scale, of great excellence