Flute, C
Maker
Johann Georg Otto
Date1798
Place MadeMarkneukirchen (Neukirchen), Saxony, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on head joint and lower middle joint: [crossed swords] / A. GRENSER / [asterisk]Stamped on foot joint: [crossed swords] / A. GRENSER / DRESDEN / 1798 / [asterisk]
Stamped on 3 corps de rechange: [crossed swords] / A. GRENSER / [1, 2, 3 respectively] [asterisk]
Markingsnone
DescriptionEbony body in four sections with two additional upper middle joints (three corps de rechange in total). One silver key, with square, chamfered flap, mounted in a turned ring. The spring is attached to the wood. Ivory ferrules and headcap.
This instrument bears the spurious stamp of Heinrich Grenser. It was actually made by J.G. Otto.
DimensionsOverall length: (a) 633 mm; (b) 625 mm; (c) 618 mm
Sounding length: (a) 547 mm; (b) 540 mm; (c) 535 mm
Embouchure: 9.8 x 8.6 mm
(Excluding tenons; measured with 3 corps de rechange - a, b, and c)
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Bernhard von Hünerbein, Cologne, Germany.
Published References"Rare Strad Guitar a Highlight . . . Important Acquisitions of 1985 Await New Galleries," Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter 13, No. 2 (January 1986), pp. 1-2.
Exhibition catalog, Amadeus: His Music and the Instruments of Eighteenth-century Vienna. An Exhibition Presented by The Shrine to Music Museum...at the Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, February 4 – March 2, 1990, p. 14 (illus.).
Ardal Powell, "A Fake Grenser Flute by J.G. Otto, Dated 1798," Traverso 9:1 (January 1997):1-3.
Phillip T. Young, 4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments: An Inventory of 200 Makers in International Collections (London: Tony Bingham, 1993; (see Y25), p. 95.
Ardal Powell, "A Fake Grenser Flute by J.G. Otto, Dated 1798," Traverso Historical Flute Newsletter 9, no. 1 (1997): 1-3.
Credit LineRawlins Fund, 1985
Object number03574
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