Word: gaitered
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...fact that the flute is the easiest of all wind instruments to play, and in part to the untiring evangelism of the Flute Club's founder and president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris' Folies-Bergère orchestra, he barnstormed every state in the Union with an organization known as the Barrère Little Symphony...