There were also some truly awful ones. And, of course, a good flute can have been damaged beyond reasonable repair. Age is no guarantee of quality, value or usefulness. But you can be very lucky! These flutes were beautifully designed and
There were also some truly awful ones. And, of course, a good flute can have been damaged beyond reasonable repair. Age is no guarantee of quality, value or usefulness. But you can be very lucky! These flutes were beautifully designed and made, and usually bear the name and address of the maker, often on every joint. The timber is usually cocus wood often stained very dark but not quite black, although occasionally a good boxwood lemon when new but aging to a distinguished honey brown flute can be found. Keys are often solid silver and are usually deliciously formed.
Rings are usually silver, sometimes very simple, sometimes beautifully engraved. Another group of London makers from a slightly earlier period, including Potter, Monzani, and Goulding-Wood, made flutes which are nice but not so useful.
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They tend to have small holes and consequently a small tone, rather more reminiscent of their predecessor, the baroque flute. The timbers tend to be ebony and box, with silver keys and silver or ivory rings.
Considerably less attractive again are the German factory made instruments, usually in ebony and often with an ivory head. The holes are small, the tuning poor and the tone weak. These instruments usually have their keys mounted on pins, rather than wooden blocks. Keys and rings are of nickel German silver and are mass produced and clumsy. The instruments are rarely named.
There were some excellent handcrafted German instruments made, but these don't seem to turn up. More recently, small-hole American flutes have become more popular, because of the example set by US player and teacher Grey Larsen. Although not as loud as the big London flutes, they offer ease of playing with great agility. Some flutes, of any manufacture, featured an inlay of metal usually nickel silver but sometimes the real thing around the embouchure hole. This was probably done to protect against or repair wear, or to protect players with timber i