Instruments

  • Traverso (a=415 Hz)
    J. H. Rottenburgh copy, built in Innsbruck by Rudolf Tutz in 2005.
  • Classical flute (a=430 Hz)
    Heinrich Grenser copy with eight keys, built in Innsbruck by Rudolf Tutz in 2006.
  • Romantic flute (a=438 Hz)
    No maker’s name. Flute with ivory headpiece and eleven keys, probably built at the end of 19th century in the Meyer style. The crack that can be always found in the ivory headpieces was beautifully repaired by Mathias von Brenndorff.
  • Romantic flute (a=430 Hz)
    J. T. Uhlmann – Wien
    Johann Tobias Uhlmann (Kronach 1776 – Vienna 1838) has been oboist at the Theater an der Wien as well as Woodwind Maker. His sons Jacob and Leopold joined him in 1833. The firm was described in 1837 as “one of the most important… all sorts of woodwind instruments and brass instruments supplied to the Austrian Army and exports to Egypt, Brazil, Persia, the British Army in Malta”. [The New Langwill Index: A dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers & Inventors.]
  • Romantic flute (a=438 Hz)
    Franz Muss – Wien
    Franz Muss was maker in Vienna in the second half of the 19th Century. He died in 1904. This instrument follows the tradition of the German Meyer  flutes with the ivory headjoint but the key system is Viennese.
  • Romantic piccolo (a=438 Hz)
    Johann Götzl – Wien
    Götzl worked in Vienna before 1889 to after 1903. 1889 directory listing; 1903 listed as a woodwind instrument maker and a musical instrument dealer.
  • Boehm cylindrical wooden flute (a=443 Hz)
    Built in Leipzig by Moritz Max Mönnig in the 1930s. Wooden Headjoint by Hammig.
  • Boehm cylindrical silver flute (a=443 Hz)
    Brannen Cooper, built by Brannen Brothers – Boston in 2000.
  • Boehm piccolo (a=443 Hz)
    Built in Markneukirchen by Philipp Hammig in 2002.