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				Music was not conceived for specific instruments in this period, and most written references to flutes can refer to duct flutes such as recorders or tabor pipes. Flutes of all kinds are often identified with mythical or spiritual figures, with pastoral life, and with death.
			In a manuscript compendium of sermons compiled by the 12th-century Benedictine Abbess Herrad von Landsberg of Hohenburg Sainte-Odile in Alsace, the effect of the sirens' music-making on the ship's crew is meant to remind us of the fate of those who fall prey to the seductions of the world. In the second picture the sirens have put down their instruments in order to attack the sailors and throw them overboard.				Psalters, the most common books of the middle ages, often contained elaborately decorated page borders and initial capitals showing scenes and figures from daily life. But only two such 12th-century illustrations of transverse flutes have been found.
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