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Flute. Nominal pitch: C.
Technical description: Light-brown wood; 3 sections (body in one piece); german silver keys; 4 german silver ferrules; screw-stopper (no tuning-slide or head lining); oval embouchure-hole; adjacent low C/C♯ touches; in-line G♯; golf-club shaped keytouches for G♯ and long F. L0: B♭. L1: B. L2: A. L3: PL - G. L4: G♯; long F. R1: F♯; C. R2: E. R3: PL - D; cross F. R4: D♯; low C♯; low C. Keymount type: rod/pillar. Keyhead type: cylinder cup with leaf springs for normal 8 keys except G♯ which has needle spring; concave cylinder cover plates with needle springs for covered action.
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Late 19th Century - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.121.2 Partly-stopped side-blown flutes
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.121.2 Partly-stopped side-blown flutes
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:662
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18440