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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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2MODEL of a cylindrical flute, in two pieces, without keys, giving e♭ as its lowest note. Length from cork 38·4 inches. Diameter of bore 1·02 inch. The holes for the third fingers are double. See plate I., fig. A.
4No person of ordinary stature could play on this flute without assistance in stopping the holes, the distance from the lowest hole to the mouth-hole being 30·5 inches.
6Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
8The models numbered 45, 46, and 47 are exact copies of original instruments preserved in the Musée Communal at Verona. Similar flutes are described by Mersenne.
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11COPIES of a pair of fifes in g'. The originals are in the Carolino Augusteum at Salzburg.
13Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
15EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
1749.
18CONCERT-FLUTE of box-wood, with tips and cap of black horn, and one brass square-flapped key. This is undoubtedly the oldest conoidal flute in the collection. It is in four "joints," the second of which is marked "2," and was probably the flattest but one of an uncertain number of interchangeable joints of different lengths. Such "corps de réchange" were in general use before the invention of the tuning slide. As the flute stands at present, its a', blown at the mean between possible sharpness and flatness, has 440 vibrations. There is no screw-stopper. This instrument was once the property of the celebrated Johann Joachim Quantz, Chamber-musician to Frederick the Second, King of Prussia, from 1741 until his death in 1773. Above the name
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