Rudall Carte Piccolo Simple system

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:14 am

This info in respose to a pm request.

On the two RC & Co.s I showed on the thread, the measurements (from the edge of the foot to the hole centres) are as follows, give or take a mm or so between the two;

1/C# 146mm
2/B 128mm
3/A 109mm
4/G 81mm
5/F# 66mm
6/E 40mm

The ebonite one (upper in the pics), #6974 is 305mm long overall (including crown but ignoring adjuster finial) with a sounding length of 255mm with slide fully shut, while the wooden #1783 is 303mm long overall and also has a sounding length of 255mm.

Here are the equivalent measurements for David Quinn's HP Eb, as best I can estimate them from his photo:

1 141mm
2 123mm
3 106mm
4 79mm
5 62mm
6 41mm

Overall length 287mm
Sounding Length 245mm

treeshark · Post by **treeshark** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:06 am

Here's the Pictures...

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:30 am

Nice! Doppelganger for my ebonite one (less than 200 serial no.s later) bar the main material and the shank of mine's short F is inline/one piece where yours is offset and on a longer axle. Good find. Can we have a pic of the tone-holes too, please, and some measurements? I bet it plays very sweetly, or will when repadded etc.

Interesting that, as on my ebonite one, the two F nat tone-holes are not in the same position, the long F's being slightly up-tube of the short's (I can't detect any pitch difference, though). My older block-mounted wooden pone has them equally positioned.