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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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2FIFE in a'b, of German manufacture.
3Lent by M. Césare Snoeck.
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6CONCERT-FLUTE of box-wood, with ivory tips, graduated tuning slide (the outer tube of which is covered with wood), graduated screw-cork, and six silver keys (including those for c' and c'#), on knobs, furnished with plugs of soft metal. By (Richard) Potter, Johnson's Court, London.
7The graduated slide, the graduated cork, and the metal plugs were patented by Richard Potter in 1785, but tuning slides of various kinds had been in use for half-a-century before the date of the patent, and J. F. Boie, a celebrated flute maker of Göttingen, was the inventor of the metal plugs.
8Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
1062.
11CONCERT-FLUTE of box-wood, with ivory tips, tuning slide, screw-cork, and four silver keys with plugs of soft metal. By (Richard) Potter, London.
12Lent by Messrs. Boosey and Co.
1463.
15FLUTE in a, of ebony, with ivory tips, screw-cork, and four silver keys with plugs. Probably a bb flute of its time. By (Richard) Potter of London.
16Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin, M.A., F.L.S.
18NINETEENTH CENTURY.
2064.
21CONCERT-FLUTE of richly-cut glass, with broad bands of silver, and five silver keys mounted on "pillars," including the long c'' key. The keys have flat, circular flaps with leathers. This instrument has
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