Hi Everyone, If anyone out there has a 6-8 key Kirst flute by Claire Soubeyran and would be willing to send it to me for a few days for rent or possible...
Hello Everyone I would like to complete soon my drawing of the Bressan flute at the Miller Collection, no:DCM 1207. This is a very rare exemple of a three...
Hi Jean-François, Robert Sanders used to make copies of the Miller Bressan. I've forwarded your post to him. As far as I know, only three traversi by Bressan...
Hi Jean-François, Robert Sanders used to make copies of the Miller Bressan. I've forwarded your post to him. As far as I know, only three traversi by Bressan...
Hello Again Jean-François, I forgot to mention in my previous post that I believe Gerhard Kowalewsky also copies the Miller Bressan flute. You can find his ...
Further still, Jean-François --- I played one of Gerhard's boxwood Bressan flutes several years when visiting him in Germany, and found it to be a beautiful,...
Hello J.F. and James, I think there are only three Bressan. Dayton Miller's was found in the flea market of Mexico City. Courtney and I measured the Victoria...
Courtney Westcott Pet...
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Mar 8, 2007 2:31 am
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Dear Jean-Francois, I have seen the original a few years ago in DC and was very much intrigued by it. Do you know who made the middle joint for it? On one ...
I decided to offer to the group the access to my drawing for giving a better knowledge of this flute for whom is not familiar with it. Some of you who are...
Dear Jean-François Thank you for sharing your measurements. A few questions: Is the mouthhole 9.25x9.25? what are your reasons to decide that it's not...
Hi Jean-François, Many thanks for your post here and the links. Regrettably, though, I cannot get the link for the Bressan photo to open, and the message is ...
... I don't think you can do direct links to items in the DCM website database. You need to go to http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dcmquery.html and enter a...
Over the years that the 'Boxwood' music week has been offered in the US and Canada, many colleagues who read 'earlyflute' have participated. I have attended...
rod cameron
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Mar 10, 2007 6:43 pm
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Here are my answers to the recent questions. About the embouchure hole, I can not remember if it is round at 9.25x9.25 or oval. On my drawing, there is still...
Dear Jim: You must login in yahoogroups to find and get it... ... Try also the Address that Terry gives us, for a photo. Again, many thanks to Jean Francois...
Dear Francois: After a bit view on the Bressan, i detected that the sockets are too narrow for this kind of flute, about diam 25 (head) and diam 20mm (foot). ...
Roberto I think you/we should firstly trust the good reputation and judgment of Bressan and secondo, try to copy his flute before to imagine something is...
Thanks for this wonderful write-up,. Rod! I'll leave it intact here lest we miss a single word of it. You warm our hearts with the plethoric stream of details...
Dear Colleagues. I have been reading this thread with interest, and thank you for all of the postings! I have a copy of the Victoria and Albert Museum drawing...
rod cameron
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Mar 11, 2007 7:58 pm
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Dear Jean-François, I just received a list of the flutes measured in Berlin at the Staatl. Institut fuer Musikinstrumentenforschung. Plans seem to be...
sorry, the big print in the list means nothing .... my computer went haywire .... kind regards, Eva ... word . Art. work Eva Aralikatti Lehrer-Götz-Weg 20 D -...
Hello all VA Bressan: I own the drawing too, but with additional 8 pages of description and bore /hole measurements (but no outer measurements). Foot length:...
In light of the discussion about the DCM Bressan I went into my records to see if I could find the notes I made about the instrument when I saw it about six...
... Dear Francois: I like the entire Bressan work, the turning of the foot is very elegant and have it's own charm (the foot of the Haka model on Ardan...
List, I'm a long-time lurker here, but I wanted to ask a few questions. Does anyone know with reletive certainty what the pitch standard(s) in use were in...
... Don't know nuffin' about Italy (but I like the food). Know a bit more about England (food's not so good). One only has to remember Peter Sellers singing...
it seems not a maker, but a dealer ""Wallis & Son, Joseph (Lim.), 133/135 Euston rd., NW, Musikinstrumente aller Art, Inport und Großhandel, auch Piano und...
I have (finally) put up a web page on 19C Viennese and Italian simple system flutes http://www.oldflutes.com/viennese.htm . Viennese flutes are my favorite 19C...
Hello Rick, Before rushing off to look at your new web page I just want to mention what you and others probably already know; Martin Wenner also makes an...
... Hi Dan, I am not entirely sure about the period 1890 to 1910, but in June 1881, at a musical congress in Milan as part of the Musical Exposition held that...
