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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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2"Bass flute" of box-wood, similar to that numbered 69, excepting that there is no cap, and that in place of the usual screw-stopper there is a solid ingot of gun-metal, with a deeply concave surface. The entire interior length, supposing the presence of an ordinary stopper correctly placed, is 43.5 inches. The bore is conoidal, its greatest diameter being 1.07 inch, and its least .67 inch. By Wigley and McGregor, 151, Strand. 1811-16.
4Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
671.
7Concert-flute of glass. This instrument has the "long f key"; in other respects it closely resembles the flute numbered 64. By Laurent of Paris, 1812.
9Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
1172.
12Concert-flute of ivory, elaborately ornamented, with eight silver keys mounted on "knobs," six of which have flat, circular flaps with leathers. The keys for c' and c'♯ have metal plugs. The head-joint, which is furnished with a screw-cork, is in one piece, the tuning slide being at the junction of the head with the second joint. This slide is a "double cylindrical tube" of silver, which was patented in 1814. The specification sets forth certain apocryphal advantages alleged to accrue from the application of such tubes to all the joints of a flute, but this specimen has only the one above mentioned, the other joints being united by the ordinary "pin and socket" with thread "lapping." See plate II., fig. E. The pitch of this flute is about a semitone below the present English pitch. By Wood of London.
14Lent by G. Donaldson, Esq.
1673.
17Fife of box-wood, in b', no doubt a c'' fife of the period.
19Lent by M. Césare Snoeck.
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