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Although some modern German makers use the single-word form Garkleinflötlein, this is without historical precedent and grammatically suspect. The correct modern German form is gar kleines Flötlein (Bär 2002, 152n1)
Well, fine, but the German Wikipedia article is titled Garkleinblockflöte. -- Evertype· ✆ 17:06, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Addition by a German: First, Garkleinflöte, its diminuitive Garkleinflötlein, and the more exact Garkleinblockflöte are compound words that can serve as names. A gar kleine Flöte (“very small flute”) could be any very small flute. By dropping the adjective ending and pushing it together into one word, the very-small-flute can become the name of this instrument. Second, Flöte is any flute, also the Indian Bansuri and the Peruvian Qena, but in the world of classical music, it is usually the concert flute. Blockflöte (“block flute”) is the word for “recorder”. The recorder makers therefore advertise the instrument as “the very-small-recorder”, die Garklein'block'flöte, to avoid confusion. However, this word is too long to pronounce even for an average German, so they drop the block in speech. Those who have seen the recorder know it anyway. Third, gar in the meaning of “very” is antiquated and invokes a feel of knights and minstrels, or at least of the time when Handel was young. -- Curryfranke ( talk) 16:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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The article says:
Although some modern German makers use the single-word form Garkleinflötlein, this is without historical precedent and grammatically suspect. The correct modern German form is gar kleines Flötlein (Bär 2002, 152n1)
Well, fine, but the German Wikipedia article is titled Garkleinblockflöte. -- Evertype· ✆ 17:06, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Addition by a German: First, Garkleinflöte, its diminuitive Garkleinflötlein, and the more exact Garkleinblockflöte are compound words that can serve as names. A gar kleine Flöte (“very small flute”) could be any very small flute. By dropping the adjective ending and pushing it together into one word, the very-small-flute can become the name of this instrument. Second, Flöte is any flute, also the Indian Bansuri and the Peruvian Qena, but in the world of classical music, it is usually the concert flute. Blockflöte (“block flute”) is the word for “recorder”. The recorder makers therefore advertise the instrument as “the very-small-recorder”, die Garklein'block'flöte, to avoid confusion. However, this word is too long to pronounce even for an average German, so they drop the block in speech. Those who have seen the recorder know it anyway. Third, gar in the meaning of “very” is antiquated and invokes a feel of knights and minstrels, or at least of the time when Handel was young. -- Curryfranke ( talk) 16:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)