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CHAPTER XIV.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN STYLES COMPARED.

Statistics—Style of performance—English, French, Italian, German—Böhm's opinion—Foreign players of note.

It is interesting to note the comparative numbers of flute-players produced by the various civilized countries.Statistics Out of a fairly complete list of 486 flautists of all times I find of German or Austrian birth, 201; French, 85; English, 54; Italian, 46; Dutch, 21; Belgian, 14; Hungarian and American, 12 each; Danish, 11; Bohemian, 8; Russian, 6; Spanish and Swiss, 4 each; Polish, 3; Swedish and South American, 2 each; Greek, 1. The predominance of those of German origin is very remarkable.

Flute-playing seems very frequently to run in families. Thus I find one instance of a father, son, and grandson; in three cases, a father and two sons; about twenty cases of a father and son; five cases of two brothers; and one of an uncle and nephew. I also find four players of the name Köhler and four Mullers, three Petersens, Wunderlichs, Gabrielskys and Fahrbachs, and two each of the following names: Günther, Heindl, Balleron, Bauer, Kuhlau, Maquarre, Voigt,

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