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Well, Cliff, thank goodness it wasn't dumped!

Displaying photos here is rather awkward, but please do e-mail me some. You can access my e-address via my profile here - click on my screen-name and make the appropriate choice in the Contact section.

Hi Cliff. Yes, we are always interested in re-emergent Rudall & Rose, Rudall Rose Carte or Rudall Carte flutes. It would be very helpful to know more about your flute in general. How many keys has it got? What metal are the keys and ferrule rings? What exactly do all of the stamps say? Is it in ...

Flattered to see I've been quoted/cited here. I've little to add to what's set out in my YT videos or the downloadable document linked in the blurbs on YT, except to say that my own experience is that the balance point and weight of any particular flute make very little difference to me. Switching f...

Hi GreenWood. I pretty much agree completely with your points about the realities of posting anything anywhere on-line. That was part of my argument for making the Group "public", along with efficacy of outreach. But my view wasn't the majority one. I've checked the Admin activity record b...

Hi, GreenWood. I'm an Admin of the FB Flute History Channel. I can't speak to your technical difficulties with Facebook in general, and as I don't know what handle you used on FB and therefore in your attempt to join the Group I can't check the Admin activity record to see what happened to your Grou...

A lovely man and a sad loss.
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I've had a bit of a look now at two flutes here which have old crack pinning work in what I believe is Paul's distinctive style. One is my low Bb R&R #4837 and the other is a "visiting" flute with Wylde stamped keys. Without doing a full strip search, there's no obvious sign of anythin...

I'll try to have a look as I have in hand several flutes I suspect Paul worked on as well as one (my own long-standing R&R #4683) I know for sure he worked on - though I'm pretty sure he didn't mark it - certainly he didn't do anything on that like or in the position of the mark on SM's R&R ...

Video of a live concert of a similar programme to the CD mentioned in the previous post - the stunning Anna Besson on a replica 1830s Liebel and Olga Pashchenko on a replica 1820s piano. Eat your heart out for "hard" low notes and crisp open hole flute ornamentation. A must watch! https://...

The Rivière & Hawkes is currently mine. The OP visited me recently, as he described - 'twas a very pleasant afternoon. 🙂 By definition by their dates (1876-89) as a partnership R&H are a British High Pitch era firm. Rivière was a French bandmaster/conductor living in London who went into par...

So far as I'm aware the vast majority of original C19th English flutes have either brass or nickel-silver liner tubes in head and barrel. They were most commonly tin-plated throughout internally and on the exterior of the protruding head tube. I've dealt with so many.... Often the tin plating is per...

To facilitate viewing by anyone else curious about this matter, here's a direct link to the Flute History Channel thread mentioned above: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Flute.History.Channel/permalink/3882236425158615/ (as it's Private FB group, only group members can see content, but people are we...

Aha, found it: "What in the World?! Who Made This 5-key Flute?! - Chiff and Fipple Forums" viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60759

FWIW I still have it languishing somewhere. In the end I decided it wasn't fit to sell without the embouchure being bushed.

Definitely of Pakistani origin and not a Frankenflute, IMO. It is typical of those (keyless and keyed versions) that the body outer diameter doesn't match the ODs of barrel and foot at the joints. The hugely oversized and badly cut embouchure hole is also typical and is effectively unplayable. I wou...

Yup, nach Meyer style German flute, made any time between c1870-1940. See also "Meyer and "Nach Meyer" flutes" http://www.oldflutes.com/articles/meyer.htm