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By then the fashion for these instruments was waning: professionals preferred the flute and amateurs found double and triple flageolets too complicacted to play.","physicalDescription":"'Two boxwood pipes of which the right hand is the longer, held in a wide head joint provided with three shut-off keyes. The ivory mouthpiece is missing. The pipes are ivory mounted and the keys are of brass, octagonally shaped. The holes are marked as in 21/5, save that the left hand pipe has a seventh hole marked C#. [Those of 21/5 (Museum no. W.23-1925) are marked as follows: 'The holes in the left pipe are marked from the highest <i>B,A,G,F,E,D</i> ... The right pipe holes are marked <I>G,F,E,D</i> ...'].  The keys on this pipe (left) are marked <i>E flat</i> (high up) and <i>F natural</i> (lower down the pipe). Those of the right-hand pipe are marked <i>C, B</i> and (low down) <i>Low C key</i>. The bass pipe, connected to the back of the head by a short tube, uses a boxwood cylinder 31 cm long and slightly tapered, with its widest bore, 24.5 mm, at the top end. At 14 cm from the top it is closed by a cork. The bottom end carries a boxwood bed, 14 cm long, for resting the instrument on the chair. The four keys on this pipe are marked <i> D key, C key, B key and A key </i>, and a short protruding tube is marked <i>F natural</i>.'\r\n- Anthony Baines: <i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</i> (London, 1998), p. 90.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Hastrick, Henry","id":"A27153"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x37726"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"boxwood","id":"AAT12002"},{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"},{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"}],"techniques":[{"text":"turning","id":"AAT53158"},{"text":"drilling","id":"AAT53151"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Turned and drilled boxwood pipes; turned ivory mounts; brass keys.","categories":[{"text":"Musical instruments","id":"THES48919"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES299408"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES299408"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Triple flageolet","id":""}],[{"text":"Triple flageolet","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1835 - 1855","earliest":"1835-01-01","latest":"1855-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"48.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum length","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), p. 90.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Hastrick Late/ Bainbridge/ Inventor/ 35/ Holborn/ Hill/ London/ New Patent.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped below the lower keys of the bass pipe"},{"content":"Bainbridge/ Inventor/ Holborn/ Hill/ London","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped on the head joint"},{"content":"New Patent","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped on the upper joint of the bass pipe."},{"content":"Hastrick/ Late/ Bainbridge/ Inventor/ New Patent","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped on the bottom of the proper right pipe."},{"content":"Hastrick/ Late/ Bainbridge/ Inventor","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped at bottom of the proper left (smaller) pipe."},{"content":"B, A, G, F, E, D, C#","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Each letter is stamped next to a finger-hole, working from the top downwards on the proper left (smaller) pipe."},{"content":"G, F, E, D","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Each letter is stamped next to a finger-hole, working from the top downwards on the proper right (larger) pipe."},{"content":"E [flat], F [natural]","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"E [flat] marked next to the upper key of the proper left pipe; F (natural marked next to the lower key of the proper left (smaller) pipe."},{"content":"C, B, Low C","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"These are stamped next to the keys on the proper right (larger) tube."},{"content":"D key, C key, B Key and A key","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped on the four keys, working downwards on the bass pipe."},{"content":"F [natural]","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped on the small tube protruding from the bass tube."}],"objectHistory":"This instrument was bought for £1 - 10 - 00 (£1.50) by the Museum in 1882. It had been part of the collections of Carl Engel (1818-1882), an eminent musicologist from Hanover, who published the <i>Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum</i> in 1874. The South Kensington Museum was renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1899.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Boxwood with ivory mounts, by Henry Hastrick, English, 1835 - 1854.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. 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