Detail View: The AMICA Library: Transverse Flute in D Flat
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.89.4.924
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Laurent, Claude
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Creator Role:
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Maker
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Made by Claude Laurent
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Title:
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Transverse Flute in D Flat
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1813
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Creation Start Date:
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1813
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Creation End Date:
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1813
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Materials and Techniques:
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Glass, brass
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Classification Term:
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Aerophone/flue blown/edge blown
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Dimensions:
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L. 24 3/4 in. (62.9 cm); L. of embouchure 21 13/16 in. (55.4 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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89.4.924
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Credit Line:
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The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
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Rights:
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Context:
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Claude Laurent, a Parisian watchmaker and mechanic, invented the technology to produce glass flutes that became an early 19th century novelty. He used lead crystal and other types of glass to make white, cobalt blue, and uranium green flutes. This fragile white crystal flute has four brass keys but Laurent manufactured more complicated key systems including one invented by Theobald Boehm (1794-1881), 'the father of the modern flute.' 'Crystal flutes' went out of style after Laurent's death but his innovative use of pillars to mount the keys became an industrial standard. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.mi89.4.924.R.tif
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