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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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3CONCERT-FLUTE ofocus-wood, with improved "cylinder bore" and silver fittings. All the finger-holes are covered by keys. Carte's "1851 flute." The object of the inventor of this flute was to "design a mechanism which should retain the open keys… of Boehm's flute, and yet secure a greater facility of fingering," and he claims in his specification that "the fingering is easier than that of the Boehm or of the old system. It is, at the same time, a smaller departure from the latter." Mr. Carte gained a prize-medal for this instrument at the Exhibition of 1851. The construction of the flute will be best understood by an examination of the wood-cut (see page 47). The now well-known "open d'" first appeared on a flute, patented in 1850, which was the immediate precursor of, and which did not differ greatly from, the flute of 1851. In this same year a well-known amateur suggested a nearer approach to the fingering of the old flute, and to this end he had an instrument made with a "closed g# key" and without the open d" key, in place of which he substituted the ordinary closed shake-key, but in other respects the same as the 1851 flute. In this form the instrument is still made, but it may be considered to have been superseded by the flute of 1867 (No. 106), which is vastly superior to it. By Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co.
5Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
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9CONCERT-FLUTE of silver, with improved "cylinder bore." All the finger-holes are covered by keys. This instrument, which is generally known as the "1867 patent" (see page 47), combines, in its fingering, the principal features of Mr. Carte's flute of 1851 (see No. 105) with many of the best points of the so-called "Boehm system." Its greatest advantages over the flute of 1851 are gained by the abandonment of the long f# key of that instrument (see the engraving), and the substitution of the f# of the "Boehm-flute." In tuning and tone it does not differ from other well-constructed flutes of the period. By Rudall, Carte and Co.
11Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
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