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Flute   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jos Wallis and Son Ltd; Joseph Wallis & Sons; Carlo Tomaso Giorgi
Title
Flute
Object type Classification: NM3.10282
Description
English: Flute, end blown, scrolled head 'Giorgi Patent', ebonite, keyless, eleven open holes, three nickel-silver ferrules 1 Giorgi flute designed by Carlo Tommaso Giorgi, Italy, circa 1888 and manufactured by Joseph Wallis and Son Ltd., London, England, circa 1900 ebonite, nickel-silver ferrules, overall length 528 mm stamped ‘JOSEPH WALLIS and SON LTD - GIORGI PATENT - LONDON’ 1998.60.185 Castle 285 The Florentine, Carlo Tommaso Giorgi, invented the Giorgi flute around 1888. It was designed as a chromatic instrument, with eleven correctly placed holes to produce the twelve semi-tones of the octave. To close this number of holes it required both thumbs, all finger tips, and the side of one finger. The instrument was held vertically instead of horizontally. Because of the different fingering, the system was doomed to failure almost from the start, because of the difficulty for the players to change, and their reluctance to teach the instrument. Giorgi flutes were made from ebonite a hard vulcanized rubber that was stronger than wood for making instruments subject to the extremes of temperature and humidity experienced in military bands.
Date 20 Oct 1998; 10 Oct 1998; Circa 1900; Victorian-Contemporary Age-European and British-art and design period
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length: 528mm
width: 33mm
diameter: 25mm

notes: length 528 x width 33 x diameter 25 mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1998.60.185
Place of creation London
Credit line The Zillah Castle and Ronald Castle Collection of Musical Instruments, (285), collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1998.60.185
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