Rudall Carte design book from Robert Bigio. Showing also a red and a yellow round sticker, looseleaf. Technical specifications for tuning of flutes, sketches of keys, headjoints, embouchure plates, etc. c. 1965. Included are two notes: ‘From Robert Bigio 14-xi-2003’ and ‘John Wick’s hand – worked for Rudall Carte from the 1950s; family firm [?] of Henry Stark’.
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