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B♭ fife. Nominal pitch: A♭.
Technical description: Boxwood; 1 section; long brass ferrules at each end; cork plug; small oval embouchure-hole slightly out-of-line with finger-holes.
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Circa 1778 - c1831 - Maker:
G. Astor & Co - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.121.12 Open side-blown flutes with fingerholes
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.121.12 Open side-blown flutes with fingerholes
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:411
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/14991