The Fisherman and his Flute which the illustrator to the latter author makes a trumpet. In La Fontaine’s French version the instrument is referred to as a ‘musette’ which, since his fable is titled “The Fishes and the Shepherd who Played the Flute” ("Les poissons et le berger qui joue de la flûte", X.10), must refer to the old piccolo oboe. Nevertheless, it was translated as bagpipe by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, in her rendering of his poem. La Fontaine had made of the story an artificial pastoral in which Tircis tried to charm the fishes to the hook of the shepherdess Annette but
Subcontrabass flute it has great opportunities for dynamic power and accent. A–D The tone becomes less secure and loses some of the lower partials and it is great for blending. E–C has a weaker and somewhat unfocused pitch center which may be a good choice for blend or effect. The double contrabass flute (or "octobass flute"), an instrument in the key of C pitched a fifth lower than the subcontrabass flute in G, is sometimes referred to as a "subcontrabass flute", as for, example, in the instruments made by Jelle Hogenhuis. "And the Giant Began to Dance..." (Peter Sheridan), on the album