Flügel
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Flügel may refer to:
- The HarpsichordHarpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
in the 18th and early 19th centuries - The Grand Pianoforte in the late 19th century
- The flugelhornFlugelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
- The "wing" or tenor joint of the BassoonBassoonThe bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
- The following persons:
- Johann Gottfried FlügelJohann Gottfried FlügelJohann Gottfried Flügel , German lexicographer, was born at Barby near Magdeburg.He was originally a merchant's clerk, but emigrating to the United States in 1810, he made a special study of the English language, and returning to Germany in 1819, was in 1824 appointed lector of the English language...
, (1788-1855), German lexicographer - Gustav Leberecht FlügelGustav Leberecht FlügelGustav Leberecht Flügel was a German orientalist.Born at Bautzen, he received his early education at the gymnasium of his native town, and studied theology and philology at Leipzig. Gradually he devoted his attention chiefly to Oriental languages, which he studied in Vienna and Paris...
, (1802-1870), German orientalist - Carl Gustav Flügel, (1812-1900), German composer
- Johann Gottfried Flügel