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Zauberflote.<br />

(Thynne.)<br />

DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. l8 5<br />

z.<br />

ZARTFLOTE—Anglice Zartflute. (Ger.) Zart =<br />

tender, delicate. 8 ft. ; 4 ft.<br />

According to Seidel the Zartflote was the invention<br />

<strong>of</strong> T. Turley, and was first introduced by him<br />

into the <strong>organ</strong> at St. Mary, Wisraar. It was an<br />

8 ft. wood pipe <strong>of</strong> narrow scale, in tone a hybrid<br />

between a Flute, and a Fugara. As now made in<br />

this country and in Germany the Zartflote is a<br />

small-scaled Flute <strong>of</strong> bright tone. It is constructed<br />

<strong>of</strong> either wood or metal. In England it is generally<br />

found on the Swell or Choir <strong>organ</strong> and <strong>of</strong> 4 ft. pitch<br />

{e.g., in <strong>organ</strong>s by Messrs. Brindley & Foster).<br />

Sometimes the Zartflote, as used by Messrs. Beale &<br />

Thynne and Mr. J. W. Whiteley, was a Phoneuma.<br />

Zauberflote — Harmonic Gedeckt.<br />

(Ger.) Zauber = magic.<br />

Named after Mozart's celebrated opera " Die<br />

Zauberflote." The Zauberflote was invented by<br />

Messrs. Michell and Thynne, and first introduced<br />

into their <strong>organ</strong> for the Inventions Exhibition <strong>of</strong><br />

1885, erected in Tewskbury Abbey in 1887. It<br />

is composed <strong>of</strong> stopped pipes, <strong>of</strong> harmonic struc-<br />

ture in the treble. These harmonic pipes overblow<br />

to their first upper partial (the twelfth). The<br />

actual length <strong>of</strong> such pipes, therefore, is three<br />

times that <strong>of</strong> an ordinary stopped pipe. The tone<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Zauberflote is full, liquid and pure. It<br />

sometimes has a suspicion <strong>of</strong> stringiness attached<br />

to it ; but this was a feature, and in some respects<br />

a failing, <strong>of</strong> much <strong>of</strong> the late Mr. Thynne's work.<br />

The Zauberflote functions admirably as a Twelfth<br />

(See Harmonic Stopped Twelfth). The harmonic<br />

stopped principle, <strong>of</strong> structure is, however,<br />

no new invention. It is not unknown in the case<br />

<strong>of</strong> certain Flutes in old German <strong>organ</strong>s, and in<br />

1754, Snetzler introduced such a stop, named German Flute,<br />

into his <strong>organ</strong> at King's Lynn. Messrs. Norman & Beard,<br />

who for some time had this instrument under their care, reproduced<br />

the variety <strong>of</strong> stop, under the name <strong>of</strong> Harmonic<br />

Gedackt 4 ft., at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge (CC note<br />

Snetzler's<br />

German<br />

Flute.

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