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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♯.
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1843-1847 - Maker:
Rudall & Rose [Corporation] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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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.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15773