"tedious and meaningless repetition" (Stu) just after "(The rest from you I've answered so many times before.)" (Me to IB)...damned if I do, damned if I don't.

I just put "recorder English flute" into Google for the sites I'd read years ago about this and found, for me, a NEW ONE! (just below yours truly): http://www.jstor.org/pss/727829