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Tell age of baroque wind instrument (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

flageolet

'wind instrument' is the definition.
(flageolet is a kind of wind instrument)

'tell age of baroque' is the wordplay.
'baroque' indicates an anagram (baroque can mean fancy or complex).
'tell'+'age'+'of'='tellageof'
'tellageof' with letters rearranged gives 'FLAGEOLET'.

(Other definitions for flageolet that I've seen before include "musical instrument" , "Pulse" , "Pipe" , "Small flute" , "Type of recorder" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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