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Flute. Nominal pitch: C.

Technical description: Rosewood; 4 sections (body in one piece); silver keys; 6 silver ferrules; metal-lined head; tuning-slide; silver embouchure-barrel; decorated silver cap and bottom ferrule; oval embouchure-hole; metal-lined sockets and capped tenons; cork and twine lapping; base for crutch (left hand); overlapping low C/C♯ touches; 3 different-sized metal spacers; with alternative head without tuning-slide or embouchure-plate, for use with the 3 spacers (Boehm preferred spacers to tuning-slides on his wooden instruments (Boehm 1882, p.23)). L0: B (TT). L1: PL - C. L2: A ring. L3: G ring. L4: G♯ (Dorus). R1: F ring; D♯ trill (Coche); dup G♯. R2: E ring; D trill. R3: D ring; B trill. R4: D♯; low C♯; low C. Keymount type: rod/pillar; leaf springs. Keyhead type: shallow cup, with pewter plugs and metal key-hole surrounds for low C/C♯.

  • Date:
    1843-1847
  • Maker:
    Rudall & Rose [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    London/England
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.121.12
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.121.12
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:671 with head and tuning-slide; 672 with alternative head and no spacers; 674, 676 and 678 with individual spacers.