Rudall Carte Serial Numbers Flutes Posted on by admin Development of the Rudall flute Introduction Rudall & Rose were one of the most impressive flute making companies of the 19th century, and one of the few to start near the start and see it through to the next.

Rudall Carte Serial Numbers Flute Lessons Rating: 6,9/10 6604 reviews Grinter’s flutes are based on the R&R Wylde flutes that he used as a prototype. I played one as my main flute for years before getting one of Grinter’s first flutes in 2000. How to date Rudall flute? Robert's records of the 8key flutes begin very late in the serial number series. S755 Rudall Carte & Co. 755 Rudall Carte & Co. This is an extraordinary example of what we believe to be the finest wooden Boehm system flutes ever made, namely the Carte thinned wood one. Rudall Cylindrical Flute Serial Numbers. It's a Romilly GRADUATE flute made for Rudall-Carte and co ltd in London. It's serial number is 338818. On the case it says Rudall-Carte, 8-10 Denman st. The British company Rudall Carte was among the most famous and well-regarded names in the music industry of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Development of the Rudall flute Introduction Rudall & Rose were one of the most impressive flute making companies of the 19th century, and one of the few to start near the start and see it through to the next. They thus provide us with a sort of skeleton upon which we can see how flute-making developed through the flute's most glorious period. It struck me that we would benefit by constructing a chronology of their flute's development during that period, overlaid over that company's history. Firstly, a word of explanation. You'll see I've used the short form 'Rudall' flute in the title. I use this to include conveniently all flutes made by the series of companies from Rudall and Rose through to to Rudall Carte & Co. Our starting points We're fortunate in being able to see fairly clearly how things were, back in 1820, before the start of the company.

Notes Date of manufacture based on serial number listing given in Robert Bigio, Rudall, Rose & Carte: The Art of the Flute in Britain (Tony Bingham, London, 2011, p.267). Pluraleyes Mac Keygen Software. Rudall, Rose & Carte: The Art of the Flute in Britain. The firm of Rudall & Rose, later Rudall, Rose & Carte, and finally Rudall Carte. Dates and serial numbers.

George Rudall had returned from the Napoleonic wars and set himself up as a flute teacher in London. For this, he needed a good supply of good flutes, and turned to London maker John Willis for these.

We're even more fortunate in that I have one in my that we can pore over. George Rudall, Willis Fecit, c 1820. (From the McGee Flutes Research Collection) You can see much more information on this flute by clicking on the image above.

Rudall Carte Serial Numbers Flute Fingerings. Serial numbers, dates, makers. Rudall Carte Guards' Model Flute. With the additions of a C# trill key.

773 Rudall Carte & Co. Stamp: Stamped on body: (crown)/ RUDALL/ CARTE & CO Ltd/ 23 BERNERS STREET/ OXFORD STREET/ LONDON/ 22849; on headjoint and footjoint: (crown)/ RUDALL/ CARTE & CO Ltd/ LONDON Comments: This is a very lovely flute. It is a marriage between the French and English styles. The mechanism is strongly influenced by early Godfroy designs, including the one-piece strap, the ball-ended thumb key, and the pointed arms. The offset G, high pillars, long arms, and large holes appear to be the influence of Carte's.

Robert Bigio wrote the following report on this flute, based on the Rudall, Carte record books. 'This flute was made as number 2284 in 1892. The flute was originally made to high pitch (A=452), the standard pitch in Britain in those days. The maker was Moujard, apparently one of a number of French or Belgian workmen brought over by Rudall Carte. Some of these makers settled and stayed (Schumacher, Goulliere and Nivarlet) but a few seem to have returned after a short stay. Moujard was one. (Some of the other names which David may recognize are Soret, Daufresne and Jansen).

• The Rudall Rose or Carte Models Study. We can interpolate to find the probable date of any flute for which we have a serial number. A C#/D trill key (#6239).
• Robert Bigio wrote the following report on this flute, based on the Rudall, Carte. A fifth digit to the serial number to. The trill left more.

Moujard would have trained at one of the great French workshops. This is the only flute of his I have seen, and it is a most impressive piece of work. The flute was rebuilt in the 1930s, after high pitch had finally died out. Rudall Carte made a new, modern-pitched body and adjusted the mechanism to fit.

They did this with such skill that often the only easy way to tell is that they added a fifth digit to the serial number to indicate the year the transplant was done. In this case, they added a 9 for 1939. (There are other ways to tell the mechanism was transplanted, if you know what you are looking for.) I gave the flute to Brian Clover, a former Rudall Carte employee, to overhaul. Brian was apprenticed at Rudall Carte in the 1950s.

It is possible that the flute will need some adjustment after a couple of years in a radically different climate.' (Robert Bigio, private correspondence). As far as playing goes, this flute has all of the extraordinary tone of the English flutes at their best.

The tuning appears to be excellent, at A=440 or a tad higher. The response is professional, if not quite as rapid as the fully thinned flute. Material: Made of cocus wood with silver keys and trim.

Springs of steel. Pad washers French type, appear plated. System: Full Boehm system, with C foot.

Covered tone holes; offset G. Headjoint thinned, with raised lipplate, and fully lined with silver (?) tube, Body and foot not thinned, and footjoint socket also lined with silver(?) tube; this one about 4 cm long, extending around and past the D# hole. This instrument has been rebuilt at Cartes in 1939; presumably after that time the trill was changed from B to Bb. The strap is one piece, and the footjoint uses the old pinned design with back-clutch. The keys were used on a new body in 1939, built to A=440, instead of A=452 as the flute had been originally (Bigio). This conversion included fitting two pieces of silver in the strap, lengthening it by a full 9 millimeters (one is 5.8mm, the other 3.2mm).

Condition: The condition of this flute is very good, notwithstanding a few hairline cracks where the tube is lined, in the head and foot. The conversion of the trill left more sign of activity than the complete rebuilding in 1939, suggesting this was done later. Pitch: Made to play at A= 440-442, I believe. Sounding Length: Sounding length 597mm. Measurements: Embouchure oval10.9x12.6. Case: In Carte case, probably from the 1939 rebuild.

The early logbooks of the Rudall (Rose, Carte, & Co.) company are lost, making exact dating of flutes made before 1869 somewhat speculative. Robert Bigio sheds much light on the company in his Rudall, Rose, & Carte but does not suggest specific dates for many early instruments. The following lists provide reasonable estimates for dating these flutes. Dates, Names, & Addresses Date Company Name Address 1838 Rudall & Rose 1 Tavistock 1847 Rudall & Rose 38 Southampton by 1851 Rudall, Rose, & Co.

38 Southampton early 1852 Rudall, Rose, & Carte 38 Southampton July 1852 Rudall, Rose, & Carte 100 New Bond 1854 Rudall, Rose, Carte, & Co. 100 New Bond by 1855 Rudall, Rose, Carte, & Co. 20 Charing Cross by 1872 Rudall, Carte, & Co. 20 Charing Cross 1878 Rudall, Carte, & Co. 23 Berners St. Metal Cylindrical Flutes Metal flutes with serial numbers use a letter code for the number, based on the word MUSICTRADE, where M=1, U=2, S=3, and so forth. Flutes built before about 1855 do not have numbers, though some pre-1855 flutes that later passed through the company for resale were given serial numbers at that time.

The phrase “Council and Prize Medals” is included on Carte 1851 model flutes made after about 1852 (flutes of the 100 New Bond period and beyond). Boehm and Rockstro models are not given this marking. Some 1867 models have this marking. Flutes with large foot holes appear around 1863 in response to the very large foot holes offered by Clinton in the 1862 London Exhibition. Flutes with all large holes appear about the same time and were marked 'Rockstro's Model' from 1864 on (according to Rockstro). Early examples of flutes marked 'Rockstro's Model' may not have serial numbers (see, for example, Bigio p.

180, left side). Points of Reference. Serial numbers do not appear before mid-1854 as shown by a flute without serial number in an original case dated June 19, 1854 (Bigio p. The first gold flute was made in 1856 and a gold flute number I.E. (40) is mentioned in Bigio p. 3 which may be the first, or nearly the first, gold flute. If so, then serial numbers started no later than 1855, the year of the Paris Exhibition.

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(106) is in an original case dated Feb. (505) was made in late 1868 (Bigio p. Estimated metal flute serial numbers (beginning of each year): 1855: 1 (M.) 1856: 13 (M.S.) 1857: 25 (U.C.) 1858: 38 (S.A.) 1859: 51 (C.M.) 1860: 64 (T.I.) 1861: 77 (R.R.) 1862: 90 (D.E.) 1863: 103 (M.E.S.) 1864: 181 (M.A.M.) 1865: 259 (U.C.D.) 1866: 337 (S.S.R.) 1867: 415 (I.M.C.) 1868: 493 (I.D.S.) 1869: 531 (C.S.M.) Assuming production levels were roughly the same before and after 1855 (13/year), then approximately 90 additional cylindrical flutes without serial numbers were built between late 1847 and the end of 1854. Pre-1862 production levels were, then, roughly equivalent to that of Boehm, who produced 155 flutes by mid-1862. After 1862, metal flute production increased to about 78/year through 1867, declining to 38/year in the early 1870’s, 28/year in the late 1870’s, and 14/year in the mid-1880’s.

Wood Cylindrical Flutes Cylindrical wood flutes continue the same sequence of Arabic numerals that started with conical Boehm flutes. Almost no cylindrical wood flutes were made before 1862. Carte system conical wood flutes were numbered in a separate series starting c. Points of Reference. No.

274 conical Boehm appears to be a Rockstro design, from c. 1854 (Bigio p. 192; see also no. 271, DCM 0438). 377 uses an unusual G# design, introduced by Louis Lot in 1860.

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Rudall flutes based on Lot and Godfroy designs generally appear a year to two after their French counterparts, so a date of 1862 is plausible. 411, old system, has all large holes and is marked 'Rockstro’s Model', so must date from 1864 or after (per Rockstro). The mechanism appears to be an early example of this model, perhaps from 1864 or 1865. Robert Bigio lists no.

356 for the beginning of 1869 but the logbook for that year includes a full listing of all stock on hand (including used flutes), so no. 477 of 1870 provides a more accurate guide for dating. Estimated conical Boehm and cylindrical wood flute serial numbers (beginning of each year): 1854: 274 1855: 286 1856: 299 1857: 312 1858: 325 1859: 338 1860: 351 1861: 364 1862: 377 1863: 389 1864: 402 1865: 415 1866: 427 1867: 440 1868: 452 1869: 465 1870: 477 The production rate of somewhat less than 13/year in the period before 1870 increased to 24/year in the early 1870’s, 50/year in the late 1870, and 98/year in the mid-1880’s; roughly doubling every five years. Combined wood and metal cylindrical flute production was roughly 13/year from 1855 to 1862 (almost all of these silver), 91/year from 1862 to 1868, 62/year in the early 1870’s, 78/year in the late 1870’s, and 112/year in the mid-1880’s.

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