ABSTRACT
W.b. abbrev. for woodblock. W.blk. abbrev. for woodblock. W/o abbrev. for without. Wachtel (Ger), quail call; used in Leopold Mozart’s
Toy Symphony (1786). Wachtelpfeife (Ger), quail whistle. Wada Chilean maracas. Wahlongka British Guiana stamping tubes. Waldteufel (Ger), friction drum whose sound is pro-
duced by a rosined cord or horsehair passing through a parchment membrane and being rotated. Waldteufel also sometimes refers to a pasteboard rattle. Bourdon in French. See also Illus. 37, p. 136.
