Note 226 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION.
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The recorder was a member of the flute family, and its name may be elucidated by Shakespeare’s charming lines (Pericles, act iv., prologue):—
To the lute She sang, and made the night-bird mute That still records with moan.
Mr. Bruce (op. cit. ii. 175) mentions cornets as in use in Old Virginia, but this of course means an obsolete instrument of the hautboy family, not the modern brass cornet, which has so unhappily superseded the noble trumpet.