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    [description] => <p></p><h1>Readings in the History of the Flute</h1><p></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">Monographs, essays, reviews, letters and advertisements from Nineteenth-Century London<br>Selected &amp; Edited with an introduction by Robert Bigio</span></p><p>It was estimated in 1829 that one man in ten in London played the flute. Players, teachers, composers and makers competed for their share of the vast market for anything to do with the flute.<br>Much of the history of the flute in the nineteenth century is based on the works in this collection, which includes the descriptions of newly-invented flutes, arguments about their relative merits and some extraordinary battles between rival makers and players.</p><p>Charles Nicholson - <span style="font-style: italic;">"A Word or Two" to Mr. W. N. James (1829)<br></span>W. N. James - <span style="font-style: italic;">Mr. James' Answer to Mr. Nicholson (1829)<br></span>William Annand - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Few Words on the Flute (1843)<br></span>Cornelius Ward - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Flute Explained (1844)<br></span>John Clinton - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Treatise Upon the Mechanism and General Principles of the Flute (1851)<br></span>Richard Carte - <span style="font-style: italic;">Sketch of the Successive Improvements made in the Flute (1851)<br></span>John Clinton - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Few Practical Hints to Flute Players (1855)<br></span>T. C. Skeffington - <span style="font-style: italic;">"The Flute" in its Transition State (1862)<br></span>Theobald B<span class="xr_tl xr_s23" style="left: 37.79px; top: 534.42px;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="xr_s22" style="">ö</span></span>hm - <span style="font-style: italic;">"Essay on the Construction of Flutes (1847, first published in 1882 with notes by W.S. Broadwood)</span></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 595.68px;">With a <span class="xr_s24" style="">Miscellany</span>&nbsp;of essays, letters, reviews and advertisements </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 617.4px;">from the daily press and from musical journals plus personal </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 639.12px;">letters from George Rudall and John Clinton to Theobald </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 660.84px;">Böhm:George Hogarth on the flute;&nbsp; Philo-Flauto;&nbsp; Letter from an </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 682.56px;">amateur flute player;&nbsp; Charles Nicholson appointed Flutist to the </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 704.28px;">King;&nbsp; The death of Nicholson;&nbsp; Bucher and Boehm;&nbsp; Richardson </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 726px;">and Card;&nbsp; ‘My Dear Phunniwistl’;&nbsp; The Paris Conservatoire and </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 747.71px;">the Boehm flute;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prowse and the Nicholson flute;&nbsp; On the Tone of </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 769.43px;">the Flute;&nbsp;&nbsp; Monzani and Wylde;&nbsp; Flute-mania;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hodgkinson;&nbsp; </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 791.15px;">Review of Clinton’s Boehm flute tutor;&nbsp;&nbsp; Carte’s advertisement;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 812.87px;">Card’s advertisement;&nbsp; Acrostic on Richardson’s name;&nbsp; The Boehm </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 834.59px;">flute controversy;&nbsp; Advertisements by Prowse, Ward and Clinton;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 856.31px;">More Boehm flute controversy;&nbsp;&nbsp; Review of Carte’s Boehm flute </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 878.03px;">tutor;&nbsp; ‘To Make a Flute Solo’;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clinton’s letter to Boehm;&nbsp;&nbsp; Siccama’s </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 899.75px;">advertisement;&nbsp;&nbsp; Carte’s advertisement;&nbsp; Rudall’s letter to Boehm;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 921.46px;">Carte and the metal Boehm flute in Newcastle;&nbsp; Madame Dulcken </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 943.18px;">and Mr. Carte;&nbsp; Richardson and Pratten;&nbsp; The flute controversy </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 964.9px;">continues;&nbsp;&nbsp; Card’s Melodion;&nbsp; The Great Exhibition;&nbsp;&nbsp; Review of </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 986.62px;">Clinton’s <span class="xr_s24" style="">Practical Hints</span>;&nbsp; Clinton and Carte caution flute players in </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s4" style="top: 1008.34px;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="xr_s22" style="">advertisements in </span><span class="xr_s24" style="">The Times</span><span class="xr_s22" style="">.</span></span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 1047.88px;">Illustrated with more than thirty engravings, photographs and line </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s22" style="top: 1069.6px;">drawings.</span><br><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br></p>
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