This is a flute that is at the Dayton museum, interesting design, as a alternative to delrin…
Looks like the Clinton Flute for India that Terry talks about on his website…I still want one, but no one so far has been inclined to send me one for free.
I think it would be fun to try out.
Eric
This is made by Auguste Buffet, jeune Paris, it is the french version. I wonder who came up with it Clinton or Buffet?
Here is the Clinton version
Why do all the holes of this flute have the same (seemingly) diameter? 
The Clinton flute had a unique mount for the keys, compare it to the normal looking pin mount of the French flute.
These are lovely flutes, and I could sit here for hours admiring them.
However, in terms of a modern, A=440 version, apparently it could be a matter of just how many people could be willing to lay out, say, a few thousand dollars to buy one, to thereby create a market for such a thing.
Anybody?
If one could secure one for a short time engineering drawings would be a simple matter.
I say send it off to China.
I’ve had great things done for me over there.
I’ve often wondered how hard it would be to take an old Boehm flute head and attach a curtain rod with some holes punched in the right places.
Defiantly would not look as nice as those conical flutes though, but it would be metal and use a simple system of fingering.
Hey Jon,
I found this one at the DMC while searching Austrian flutes:
Thought ya might like it! 
Those conical silver flutes look like Boehms that went on an extreme crash diet! 
See Loren is not the only one who gets post highjacked! 
All the Best!
Jon - that’s interesting that a French maker came up with a similar flute. Maybe Terry knows who came up with the idea first.
Now that I know it’s French, that solves the 6 key mystery.
If anyone cares and has spares of these flutes about the house, I’d prefer the Clinton (I miss the C and C# keys), but I’d take the Buffet if nothing else is available.
Eric
It’s a beauty, Jordan, but for me it simply doesn’t have the same appeal as the above two models do, for it is just too complicated, and lacks the simplicity of the other two.
But thanks for showing it!
That thing has more keys than a head janitor.
14 keys can some one name them all?
the question is how these sound?
Some of them are truly bizarre – it looks as though there’s an Eflat actuated by the left index finger.
Also, it looks like two Cnat keys, RH1 and LH1 or 2. Is the second one possibly bigger diameter so that it’s a C#/D trill?
What about that one up almost on the barrel? D-D# or D-E trill?
I think so, too. I think its way cool.
I was really keen on trying to procure one of these a while back since a pretty Siour-Chapelain cylindrical, metal, “simple system” (YMMV) appeared on Ebay over a year ago. There are a few of these in the DCM, and a few other examples pictured in popular flute books and I think Langwill’s. Most of them are French and cylindrical. It makes sense that some people would’ve wanted to try and combine the Boehm bore and headjoint with the old fingering. Heck, I love metal and wooden flutes. It’s hard not to think that a combination of the two couldn’t make a great instrument!
Not having done a lot of academic research on the matter, I wonder if timing had a lot to do with a market never materializing for such an instrument. People were either busy embracing Boehm’s flute or sticking with the tried-and-true?
Thanks for pointing this example out, Jon, I didn’t come across it before.
Here are some other DCM #s that may be of interest:
DCM 0038: [Djalma Julliot?]
DCM 0139: [Djalma Julliot-Mignolet]
DCM 0258: A. Rampone / Flute in C
DCM 1134: Rudall Rose Carte & Co.
DCM 1260: Cornelius Ward
DCM 1428: Prosper Colas
Other makers are Samual Barnett, Fernand Chapelain (Terry has one of these pictured on his website that was recently sold as well), P. Beuscher, and Thibouville Lamy.
One antique instrument buyer told me that these type of flutes come up every so often in European auctions.
Cheers!
Hey Jon, do you have the catalog number for it? I can’t find it indexed under his name.
Thanks!
I’d love to find out. And that bad boy has a B foot. swoon
Playing one of those metal jobbies (I find myself preferring the looks of the Clinton) might solve an age-old problem for me: the punter coming up and asking, “That’s a clarinet, right?” 
had a metal clarinet once…
“is that a soprano sax?”