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Conical Boehm system, still with the ring axels on the far side save for that for the right hand first-finger ring.\" Anthony Baines:<i> Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</i> (London, 1998), p. 93. 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Stamped, <i>Rudall & Rose No 1 Tavistock Street Covent Garden London</i> and on the head joint, <i>Rudall, Carte & Co. London</i>.  Three Cocus wood joints and silver-nickle keys.  \r\n \r\nMuseum No.: 1179-1903 \r\nNon-Keyboard Catalogue No.: 22/7 \r\n \r\nGeorge Rudall operated from the above address between 1837 and 1847. The instrument uses an early version of the \"Boehm system\", which made use of interlinking keys, covers and ring touch-pieces, developed by Theobald Boehm in Munich, between about 1832 and 1847.","date":{"text":"pre September 2000","earliest":null,"latest":"2000-08-31"}}],"partNumbers":["1179-1903"],"accessionNumberNum":"1179","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1903,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-01-01","recordCreationDate":"2001-05-16","availableToBook":true}}