DCM 0440: Rudall & Rose Flute in C

Each of 3 sockets terminates with a brown animal horn ferrule above the silver ferrule. Barrel joint unusually short externally speaking, most of its length being an unequally long tenon (3.5 cm.).
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Cocus, silver patented tuning screw cap and ferrule at embouchure, silver keys, ferrules. Animal horn ferrules.; 74.5 cm.
Key Holes System: 13 keys, round flat flaps, pin in block. Foot to B-flat. All foot joint keys are metal plug over square tonehole plates.
Mark Maximum: RUDALL & ROSE / N°. 15 PIAZZA / COVENT GARDEN / LONDON / 1959
Mark Additional: Mark on upper body. Mark on barrel, lower, foot: RUDALL & ROSE / LONDON. Cap top: (Coat of arms) / RUDALL & ROSE / PATENTEES
Condition: Head joint, both sections, cracked.
Provenance: J. Clayton Boyes, Bushey, England, 8 Oct. 1924.

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.