Know something about a flute?

Whether you saw one at auction, own one, or hold a scrap of its history, this is the place. Fill in what you have and leave the rest blank.

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Saw the flute online? Paste the page. We capture it ourselves, so you need not take screenshots.

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Add photographs if you have them. Close-ups of the stamp and of the foot help most.

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What do you know? Anything at all: where you saw it, what was said, what you noticed.

Your notes

History, if you have any: owners, dates, prices and where the information came from. It goes into the flute's record, where it helps us answer questions about the instrument and, in time, tell its story. Private individuals are never named unless you say they may be.

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Where this comes from

This person or business may be named when this history is told

One measurement helps us more than any other: the sounding length. Push the head joint and the tuning slide fully in, then measure from the centre of the embouchure hole to the end of the foot.

Sounding length

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