ventages

• “It is typically a back street of the business of a city, that is, the ventages of its buildings are darkened most often by packing cases and bales.”

  Journeys to Bagdad

• “The 'stops' are the holes over which the player's fingers are placed, also called vent-holes or "ventages”

  Milton's Comus

• “Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.”

  Mental multivitamin

• “’Tis as easy as lying; govern these ventages with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.”

  Act III. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

• “Govern these ventages 38 with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music.”

  Act III. Scene II

• “_Nineteenth Century_: "O human life! so varied, so vast, so complex, so rich and subtle in tremulous deep organ tones, and soft proclaim of silver flutes, so utterly beyond our spell of insight, who of us can govern the thunder and whirlwind of thy ventages to any utterance of harmony, or pluck out the heart of thy eternal mystery?”

  Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory

• “_ It is as easy as lying: govern these _ventages_ with your _finger and thumb_, give it _breath_ with your mouth, and it will discourse _most eloquent music_.”

  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries

• “The holes in a flute have always been called 'ventages,' because the”

  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries

• “The stops' referred to by Hamlet are merely the 'ventages.”

  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries

• “I know my character as the musician knows the ventages of his flute.”

  Merry Men

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