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PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THIS item IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN MY PHYSICAL STORE. Frazier- Small Town Music- 601.859.8596 PLEASE ask all questions before bidding and I'll do my best to answer them or say I don't know. See pics and let me know if you got questions. Though case is not perfect, the interior is in fairly good shape with the pieces that hold the compartment door shut intact. Also the original 5* Besson Mouthpiece as well. The LYRE& also the Lyre Holder screw is still in place. So COOL ORIGINALS with this are the Finger Ring and screw for 3rd tuning slide. Bottom 4 feet are missing and just the rods that held them there are still intact(see photo) Must have been a brittle plastic. Latches are hard to open and close, but will latch to keep it closed. The main and 1st are froze up to me pulling them out by hand. 3rd and 2nd valve tuning slide are moving. Sounds like it has good compression as the 3rd valve tuning slide makes a nice pop when pulled out.
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Valve pistons are moving free and springing back very well. Looks to have been bent at some point as the lead pipe is unsoldered from the bracket. This is a pretty little cornet that is playable.
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I haven't done a full photo set of it, but it is the bottom flute shown in this FB picture of a bunch of Eb flutes. The keys are somewhat different in style from yours, but typically French on an otherwise Pratten-ish, large-holed English type flute. London branch of the firm (it has the 184 Euston Rd address, the flourished capital B and 5-point star stamps and serial no. The other is an 8-key simple system Eb flute from the Besson & Co. I have two Besson flutes here at present - one, a Tulou "flûte perfectionée" from the French F Besson Paris branch of the firm and detailed in this FB photo album, which includes images of the Langwill Index entries for the firm. The flute is certainly French or heavily influenced in many details of the manufacturing, but could still have been made in London - perhaps by French craftsmen. It had a complicated history and I don't think you're going to narrow down a date much. I can help with a little more info on Besson - on my Facebook there are some photos of New Langwill index entries for the firm. Well, if you can make it to Selattyn sometime soon, let me know and I'll go along. How's that for a claim to fame? I'd love to get to the Dolgellau session again sometime - it's been too long - but, unfortunately, Wednesday evenings are usually taken up.
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I can go one better than that - I am Cornelius from Llanidloes. The rod mounted keys on the foot joint use a different spring system - simple straight wire springs, wrapped around the mounting pins at one end and passing through an eyed pin on the rotating tube at the other.
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The free ends of the springs do indeed ride on metal inserts. On the 3 short keys on the mid-joint, the attachment points are hidden by the corks, so I can't be sure they each have a little dark dot above the attachment point, which suggests they might be riveted. The two long keys (F-natural and high C-natural? I'm new to keyed flutes) have the springs screwed on. The head joint crown looks very much like bakelite (although I would have to cut a piece off it to be 100% certain) There is, as you point out, no reinforcing ring on the upper mid-joint tenon, but there is one inside the corresponding socket of the tuning barrel.