Identity area
Reference code
OTUFM 46-19
Title
Ten-key African blackwood flute with ivory head-joint : Stengel, Bayreuth
Date(s)
- [ca. 1890] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 flute
Context area
Name of creator
(1908-)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Item is a flute, made by Stengel in Bayreuth, with German-silver bands and keywork. This is an ultra-conservative conical-bore model which retains the eighteenth-century fingering, and has finger holes of the small pre-Nicholson type, and a long foot-joint to B. This model was in use for a century after Boehm introduced his cylindrical-bore model, and Wagner preferred it. Such flutes were listed by the German maker Heckel as late as 1931.