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Will this topic bring back Cork?
Strange flute…
Jon, your third eye has moved from your forehead I see.
Find be a Boosey Eb flute that won’t send me to sleep in the streets for buying it 
Does the “LP E♭” on the head piece mean “low pitch E♭”?
Yes, I would guess that that would mean 440htz instead of 452htz?
It might, and more likely so given the thing is ostensibly English being from Boosey; but it could equally mean A=435 or 430 rather than 440! I have my suspicions (not researched at all, just subjective on observations of key styles etc. - they could just have bought in French keys or copied same…) that both Hawkes and Boosey may have sourced quite a bit of their band flute output from France in the late part of the C19th, when 440 was HP to the French! Never trust HP and LP labelling as stamped on a flute - check sounding length measurements and if possible actually sound test it (not usually possible on eBay, I know). French, German and Austrian instruments stamped LP may be 440, or significantly lower, more often the latter.
Right you are. I just got another brass BS Dulcet whistle in “D”, have a little collection going. The las one was pitched to 430htz, this one is pitched to 452 htz, "close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades! The high pitched one is almost Eb, they both play great and are highly toxic, with lead fipples. I am trying to get a whole set, I have a Bb D Eb and a we little A, that will blast your socks off!
I don’t know if they out sourced or just copied those key arrangements? The famous Boosey Eb had French style keys, even rod Boehm keys on the foot, but it’s bore was definitely a Pratten, though a tad smaller in size.
I guess the French could have had the recipe for it…