The firm of Rudall & Rose, later Rudall, Rose & Carte, and finally Rudall Carte, dominated flute making in Britain for a century and a half from their founding in 1822. For much of their existence almost every professional flute player and most serious amateurs in Britain played on one of this firm’s instruments. Vintage Flutes. Playing older flutes is like stepping back in time. Experience what it is like to play one of Paul Taffanel's or Philippe Gaubert's flutes. Laurent flutes are not only exquisite flutes to look at, but have an amazing sound found nowhere else in the flute world. Rudall Carte & Co. Fute # 8957 - offset G, C footjoint. Antique Flutes Winds101 Please call us at 248-885-2583 for more information A. Classic cecily von ziegesar. Bonneville, Paris France Bonneville Solid Sterling Silver Flute Handmade solid sterling silver including keys and mechanisms, soldered tone holes, open hole, inline G, C foot, French pointed key arms, Boehm systems with closed G#, original case, A = 440Hz modern pitch. Plays beautifully A. 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. (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.
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