421.121.12

Flute, boxwood, ivory mounts. Five silver keys (no foot keys), round, flat, forged separately from shanks, unpadded, mounted in turned blocks. Movable hardwood stopper, cork lined with adjusting screw in hardwood button. Metal lined head joint. Three cracks in socket, one pinned but not closed; ivory mount at bottom of head cracked; pivot block of B flat key partly broken away and missing. Sounding length (embouchure to foot) is 44.0 cm. Stamped: Hill, late Monzani & Co. 28 Regent Street, Piccadilly London (Crown mark and numbered 2347). Head, socket and right-hand joints marked: Monzani & Co.

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MUSEUM NUMBER
14.5.47/158
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall length: 516 mm; sounding length: 440 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
boxwood; ivory; silver; metal; leather; vegetable fibre; wood; cork
CATEGORY
Musical Instruments
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