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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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2CONCERT-FLUTE of ivory, with four square-flapped silver keys, mounted on "knobs," furnished with leathers. This instrument has a screw-stopper but no tuning slide. Its pitch is about a semitone below the present English pitch. By Cahusac of London, 1780 circa.
4Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
656.
7WALKING-STICK-FLUTE of ivory, without keys. This appears to have been intended to form a flute at the upper end, and a piccolo at the lower, but it has evidently been subjected to injudicious experiment.
9Lent by the Grossherzogliches Museum, Darmstadt.
1157.
12WALKING-STICK-FLUTE of light-coloured wood, with four keys fashioned in imitation of stumps of twigs. The f# key is for the right-hand thumb. The peculiar position of this key was first adopted by Dr. J. J. H. Ribock in 1784, but it never came into general favour.
14Lent by Messrs. Henry Potter and Co.
1658.
17CONCERT-FLUTE of ebony mounted with ivory, in four pieces, with screw-stopper, and one square-flapped key. By Hoffmann.
19Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin, M.A., F.L.S.
2159.
22CONCERT-FLUTE of ivory, with eight circular-flapped silver keys including the "long c" key"), furnished with leathers, and mounted on "knobs." This flute has a screw-stopper, and a tuning slide in the head-joint, consisting of a single tube of silver which slides in the unlined ivory. By (Richard) Potter of London. See plate I., fig. H.
24Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin, M.A., F.L.S.
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