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Querflöte - German name for Flauto Traverso (It.), Flûte traversière (Fr.), or Orchestral Flute. Often designed to imitate the orchestral instrument, and built as an harmonic (overblowing) stop.
Quint [noun] - a generic term for any stop or rank which speaks at an interval of a 5th above any octave pitch.
Quintadena
Quintaton