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Flute. Nominal pitch: C.

Technical description: Cocus; 4 sections (body in one piece: connection of right and left hand systems necessitates a single body section); silver keys; 5 silver ferrules plus chased silver cap; screw-stopper; tuning-slide; metal-lined head; large, almost circular embouchure-hole with recess for lip; little variation in finger-hole size; cork-lapped tenons; metal-lined sockets; adjacent low C/C♯ touches; low C/C♯ holes on nearside; rods on both sides of instrument; four indentations beside L0 position (perhaps the instrument originally had a crutch, which Boehm favoured). Boehm 1832 system fingering plus Coche D♯ trill (R1) and double touch for low C♯ for ease of sliding R4; a tuning-slide was not included in Boehm's original 1832 model as he disliked its use on wooden instruments (Boehm 1882, p.23). L0: B (TT). L1: PL - C. L2: A ring. L3: T. L4: G. R1: F ring; D♯ trill (Coche). R2: E ring; D trill. R3: D ring; B trill. R4: D♯; low C♯ (double touch); low C. Keymount type: rod/pillar; needle springs except for L0, L4, trill keys and D♯ key, which have leaf springs. Keyhead type: cup, riveted to shanks.

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