DCM 0112: Joseph Wallis Flute in C
Summary
Vertically blown, having a small head joint, with an integral embouchure plate turned 90 degrees (perpendicular) to the body tube, and incorporating a tuning slide (3.74 cm.). Similar to the Giorgi flute, the patented fingering system consists of 11 toneholes requiring all finger tips plus first finger 3rd phalynx: the tonehole system offers the full chromatic scale with fingerings equally (in)convenient in all keys.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Ebonite, nickel silver ferrules and slide at mouthpiece.; 52.2 cm.
Key Holes System: Giorgi system, cylindrical, vertically blown. See DCM 481a and 481b.
Mark Maximum: JOSEPH WALLIS & SON. LTD. / GIORGI PATENT / LONDON
Mark Additional: Mark on body. Mark on head: T. Giorgi (cursive) // PATENT // Wallis (cursive)
Case: Case, with maker's imprint in gold on purple silk lining: JOSEPH WALLIS & SON LIMITED. / SOLE PROPRIETORS / OF THE / GIORGI PATENT / LONDON N.W.
Provenance: Baxter-Northup Co., Los Angeles, 9 Apr. 1919.
The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.
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