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Author: Christina
Date: 2000-09-23 00:43
I bought a woodwind instrument at a garage sale and I am at a loss as to what it is. It appears to be played like a flute, but is seemingly made out of Grenadilla wood! It is very old. The keys look to be pot metal and it is in a hand made wooden case. There are joints like a clarinet and the "mouthpiece" is metal like a flute. It is full of minor cracks, but I bought it to display so I suppose it doesn't matter. I am dying to know what it is. Thanks for any information.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-09-23 01:19
Wooden flutes are pretty common and still being made ... perhaps you now are the owner of one?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-09-23 02:42
I have an old wood flute with 8 keys [count yours] and metal inlays forming each of the 6 toneholes and mouth hole. It has an adjustable "barrel" [in clarinet terminology], and a small tip "decoration". I have tenatively dated it by antique horn books as 1820. Give us a bit of description and/or look on EBAY/flute for similar ones.
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Author: ken
Date: 2000-09-23 10:03
Mark and Don, inveritably, always provide the correct answer. Sounds like a 19th century flute to me. <:-)
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-09-25 01:41
Boston's new principal chair, Jacque Zonn coming from Netherland,plays wooden flute. All joints are made of different manufacturers. It is nearly made by himself.
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