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Flute

"Cocus wood, in three joints, with nickel-silver keywork. Conical Boehm system, still with the ring axels on the far side save for that for the right hand first-finger ring." Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 93. The head joint is a replacement.

  • Date:
    1847-1850 (Made)
  • Maker:
    Rudall & Rose [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    Victoria and Albert Museum
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  • Place of production:
    London
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  • Materials:turned and bored cocus wood flute, nickel-silver keys
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  • Inscriptions:Rudall & Rose No 1 Tavistock Street Covent Garden London Rudall Carte & Co. London
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  • Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 66 cm