http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?dcm:7:./temp/~ammem_BOeu: fro the Frenchy
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For the Clinton
It looks like the key cups are inlaid with turquoise? That would be cool…
So that is why the end cap is called a crown! This one looks like one…
There is such a wealth of flutes on that site. I hear that David Shore discovered the collection while working there. they were all stuffed away in boxes. He made a stink and finely got them on line.
Well, truth be told, I have a couple of those older, metal clarinets, and my initial attraction to them was because they sure did look like a soprano sax.
BTW, I have never played either one of them, although at a glance they each could be easily restored into playing condition.
Good question! This is listed as “DCM 0677: Auguste Buffet, jeune / Piccolo in C”. So I’m guessing that, being a piccolo, the holes could be made as large as possible and positioned optimally without running into the hole size/finger span limitations that force simple flute holes to be a) different sizes and b) smaller than the “optimum” size (which Boehm considered to be 3/4 of the bore diameter).
Actually, that doesn’t totally explain it as holes 3/4 of the bore diameter would be different sizes on a tapered bore. Probably it was easier from a manufacturing standpoint to have them all the same size.
Rob
Good point, I didn’t see that it was a piccolo…
Okay, here is a better flute to copy, then…
Ward made it, so it has to be good!
Key work is a little strange on this one.
Killer embouchure hole! bet it was a honker…
Actually, you could follow the same specs as a wooden flute, and just make it out of silver. Probably use a mandrel to shape the bore, solder on chimneys on the tone holes and emb hole, and away you go! To bad silver is costing a fortune right now, maybe brass?
Is that a fancy set screw for the cork?
Kevin Krell
Could be a toggle for a chain so one could hang one’s flute from one’s cummerbund. A jaunty accessorization, no?
That is cool, a little wind up cork setter? Or is that where you are supposed to mount your tassel? 
That would be “bling”!
Why yes. Yes it is.
Its actually a sommelier flute and you wear it about your neck on a chain.
It also comes with a lobster cracker and oyster knife.
There is even setting you can turn it too! Does this flute have AM or FM?
AM…FM came later.
That is SO cool looking!!
I’m getting into a real rut with the Philip Bate quotes:
“Ward’s ‘Patent Flutes’ were furnished with graduated metal tuning slides, and to move the stoppers he provided, not a screw, but a sort of eccentric with a tiny connecting rod. An indicator mounted on the eccentric spindle outside the head showed the setting of the cork, and had to be matched with corresponding numbers on the slide.”
Rob
So a poor man’s R&R patent head.
Kevin Krell
Sure is. That’s Ward’s patented Indicator and Terminator, see:
http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Ward_FE_8.htm
Essentially his version of Potter’s markings on slide and stopper, or Rudall & Rose’s Patent Head. All attempts to keep the stopper and slide positions synchronised over a wide range of pitches.
The keywork, as Jon remarked, is unusual. It’s Ward’s “bellcrank” system - when you operate a key, you pull a wire along the flute, which then lifts or closes a pad. Proved not that practical.
Terry
I should have checked your site, figures that you would have a diagram how it works… I like the name, “The Terminator” Arnold would like that!
Your lip would not easily slip off of that plate.
Gee, all I did was mention a speculative pile of money. Hello, where’d everybody go?
uh, you were expecting a different answer, eh?
What ever happened to entrepreneurial spirit?