Flageolet
Bambridge and Wood
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 1810
Materials
Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Bone, Brass
Measurements
410 mm (Length); 50 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
England
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335309
Summary
Double flageolet by Bainbridge & Wood, London, c.1810. Boxwood, with bone mounts and mouthpiece. Two tubes with bone finger locators between note holes. Five square brass keys.Stamped with a crown and ‘Bainbridge Inventor Holborn Hill London’ on bulbous part of neck (mouthpiece holder) and ‘Bainbridge & Wood, 35 Holborn Hill London, Patent’ on first section of body. In notebook no.4, page 7 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Music Room 57. Double Flagelot of smaller size.' [than 1335310]
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Bambridge and Wood
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944