This is the type of flageolet owned and played by Samuel Pepys in the C17. Like a small recorder it was used mainly as a solo instrument and is well documented for having been used to train caged, wild birds to sing. The original is in the Horniman Museum in London and has no maker's name, but dates from the early C18. It is pitched in C but around a tone below modern pitch.

I have also used the same original to design flageolets in A and G (modern pitch), and variations of pitch are possible to order.

Both are available in ebony, grenadilla or boxwood, all with imitation ivory mounts, and are provided with a turned case in pearwood or sycamore.

French flageolet in C, in ebony with turned pear wood case.

French flageolet in G.