English flageolet. Nominal pitch: G (three-finger tonic).

Clementi

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Instrument

Flageolet/Flutes/Wind/Musical Instrument ; Flageolet

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Clementi

Place Made

Paris ; Europe ; France ; Western Europe

Date Made

Early to mid 19th century

Description

Technical description: Boxwood; 4 sections; ivory ferrules and mouthpiece; silver keys; bone studs to guide fingers; 7 finger-holes (R2 very large, the rest small) plus thumb-hole; ebony plug in top finger-hole; separate foot section and wind-cap; D♯ key is single and below the C♯ hole; C key-hole and touch are on the left-hand side of the instrument, the G♯ key-hole on the right-hand side; C, G♯ and F keys can all be played with L4, but C key was possibly played with the middle joint of L3. 4 keys. L0: T. L1: T. L2: T. L3: T. L4: C; G♯; F. R0: R1: T. R2: T. R3: T. R4: T; D♯. Keymount type: ring/knob. Keyhead type: round flat. Stamped on wind-cap "CLEMENTI / PARIS". Performance characteristics: Based on scale of G (three-finger tonic); lowest six-finger note sounds D⁵; seven-finger note (all holes covered) sounds C♯. Usable pitch: Sounding A⁴ = c445 Hz (c20 cents above A⁴ = 440 Hz).

Notes

Edgar Hunt, 1985; E. Smith, 2010.

Measurements

400.

Provenance

on loan to the Collection.

Collection

MIMEd

Accession Number

2015