Double fipple flageolet flute

Collection type: Object
Description: Double fipple flageolet flute
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England London
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Bainbridge; Field collector Thomas William Taphouse; PRM source Thomas William Taphouse; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1886
Date collected: By 1886
Acquisition information: Donated: 03/1886, uncertain Transferred: 03/1886, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Silver Metal, Material Elephant Tooth Ivory Animal, Process Perforated, Process Turned
Dimensions: Diameter: max 60 mm, Length: max 504 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.18.3 Other numbers: 130.C.28
Research and responses: Bainbridge / Bainbridge and Wood: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:domOSuUFiS4J:www.rncm.ac.uk/pdfs/collection_pdfs/coll_hwm01.pdf+bainbridge+holborn+hill&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 Based at 35 Holborn Hill, London. Musical instrument manufacturers, William Bainbridge was the inventor of the double flageolet, he went into partnership with John Wood in 1808 [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 20/04/2007]

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