Flute, C
Maker
Richard Potter
Date1780-1795 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on barrel, both middle joints, and foot: POTTER / LONDONMarkingsStamped on barrel above signature: 6
Stamped on wood of tuning slide: 5
Numbers stamped on graduations of screw cork adjuster: 4 / 5 / [on the tip of the screw:] 6
DescriptionBoxwood body in five sections (four joints, with graduated tuning slide in head joint). Simple system keywork, with six silver keys mounted in turned blocks and turned ring, the channels of which are lined with brass. Key heads are pewter plugs that close over metal bushed tone holes. The shank of the low C key vaults over the C# key. Ivory ferrules and headcap with graduated screw cork adjuster.
DimensionsTotal assembled length (from top to bottom): 642.5 mm
Acoustical length (from center of embouchure hole to bottom): 580 mm
Head: 154.3 mm
Barrel: 58.9 mm
Upper joint: 158.45 mm
Middle joint: 117.8 mm
Foot: 150.7 mm
Inner Bore at top of head joint: 19.8 mm
Inner Bore at bottom of head joint: 19.5 mm
Inner Bore at top of top joint: 18.0 mm
Inner Bore at bottom of top joint: unable to measure because top and middle joints "frozen"
Inner Bore at bottom of middle joint: 13.1 mm
Inner Bore at bottom of foot: 10.4 mm
Embouchure hole diameter (length X width): 10.8 mm X 10.3 mm
ProvenanceThis flute, along with NMM flutes 14171-14179, was in a large framed display that may have been kept in Frank Holton's office. This collection originated with Frank Holton and was always at the Holton factory until Vito Pascucci purchased Holton in 1964. Vito then took it and put it up in his office at Leblanc. After Vito died (2003), the framed collection was returned to the Holton plant, where it was mounted outside the bathrooms on the wall in the Holton office.
Credit LineGift of Conn-Selmer, Inc., 2008
Object number14173
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1785-1825 ca.