Rudall Rose, & Carte simple system flute register THE RUDALL & ROSE - RUDALL, ROSE & CARTE - RUDALL CARTE & CO. REGISTER This is an attempt to document surviving simple system flutes made by Geo. Rudall, Rudall & Rose, Rudall, Rose & Carte & Co. And Rudall Carte & Co. The main source of this information has been auction house sites, E-bay auction listings, music instrument collections, internet flute sites, Robert Bigio's work 'The art of the flute', highly recommended, and from contact with owners of Rudall & Rose, Rudall, Rose & Carte and Rudall & Carte simple system flutes such as John McLeod, Jem Hammond, Andrew Kirby, Andrew Pickering. I decided to make a register available based on serial numbers and including any auction house description, or other information that is connected to each flute/serial number. Please notify me of any new serial numbers not in the register, also of any discrepancies or mistakes. Rose - 1816-1821 John Rose University of Edinburgh: Stamped with a thistle motif and 'J.M. ROSE / EDINBURGH / 1'. Technical description: Rosewood, 3 sections (lower body and foot in one piece); silver keys with slim keytouches and shanks; 3 ivory ferrules; ivory cap; no tuning-slide but graduated ivory screw-stopper; slightly oval embouchure-hole; overlapping low C/C_ touches; socket at top of upper body, tenon on head. Keymount type: knob. Keyhead type: flat, round; low C_ [and C] pad riveted to keyhead. Repair History: A few springs have been replaced and roughly soldered to keytouches; lowest keyflap is a replacement by Daniel Bangham (2002). Measures 659 mm. John Rose Bate Collection: Stamp: Jn Rose Edinb - ebony, head joint has no tuning slide, six silver square flat keys, silver rings, 673 mm (Ref.: R. Bigio - Rudall Rose & Carte, p 158) John Rose University of Edinburgh: Stamp: Thistle J. Rose Edinburgh - cocuswood, tuning slide, round flat keys, wide silver rings, 667 mm (Ref.: R. Board index Fluteland.com Students Flute History and Instruments; Rudall Carte & Co Graduate. It is a Rudall Carte & Co Graduate series 80 with the serial number. And from contact with owners of Rudall & Rose, Rudall, Rose & Carte and. Rose flute with serial number 1900 Rudall. A rosewood Flute by Rudall. Use of serial numbers in dating musical instruments. Rudall Carte and Sax. Fig.5 shows instrument serial numbers being allocated in chronological order by date. Rudall Carte Serial Numbers Flute InstrumentalBigio - Rudall Rose & Carte, p 159). Rudall Carte Serial NumbersThis instrument was presented by his pupils in 1871 to Benjamin Wells (1826-1899), professor of the flute at the Royal Academy of Music. His private pupils included Prince Albert, the Prince Consort (1819-1861). This example is made by Rudall, Carte & Co., the earliest firm in Britain to use the 'Boehm system', a series of interlinking keys. Which is still used today. It is made of ebonite, a hardened form of rubber, patented by Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1844, and used to make flutes by about 1847.
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