Item Type: Wheatstone Flute EmbouchureSummaryFull Description: A clip on silver-plated Flute Embouchure upon a boxwood and ivory flute
by Potter, London, c 1820. It was made by William Wheatstone
(Charles Wheatstone’s father) at his music shop at 128 Pall
Mall (where young Charles was apprenticed for a time). It enables
the amateur flautist to sound the flute without any difficult lip-positioning:
The silver-plated embouchure has a rocking lip-rest, is
leather-lined to enable it to be slipped on to the headstock of the
flute, and has a gilt brass name plate embossed
“(crown) W Wheatstone 128 Pall Mall,
1659” (this last the item’s serial number).
The ivory-bound boxwood headstock and lower section of the flute is stamped
‘Potter, London’. Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 1.2.8-002 |
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