Piccolo head cork spare part

Irish Flute
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Hi

I started to study the Concert Wooden Flute on a M&E few weeks ago. I thought that my next step will be a modern/antique “real” wooden Flute but… Three days ago I found in Italian secondhand on line market a Piccolo in perfect condition and I bought it! It will be not my first woodwind instrument but I don’t lost it!
It’s in my hands now and It’s very beautiful D Piccolo. The only non perfect part is the head cork that was repaired with teflon tape. Does someone know where I can order the spare parts? The inner diameter of the head is 10mm and the repaired cork hasn’t passant hole (but the cap has a thumbscrew)

Thanks in advance

Concertinaplayer

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Find out where your nearest woodwind technician is (search online) and see if they will sell you one - modern ones will have a hole through them, but you can easily block that with some sealing wax once it has been fitted to your stopper. Alternatively, note the length of the existing one and then make one yourself from a wine cork.

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Thanks jemtheflute. I followed your advice. I got a little brass tube with the right inner diameter and I gently hammered it in a fine wine cork stopper. Now I have a perfect round stopper for my Piccolo. Do you know If the “rule” of the right distance of the cork for piccolo is the same of the Concert Flute (head cilinder hole diameter = distance center of blow hole/stopper)? Can you help me also about period identification of my Piccolo?

Thanks

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_eQu0Y-gZfXOWl0SnhuMU5waG8

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Yes, the rule-of-thumb stopper placement is one head bore diameter back from the centre of the embouchure hole, but then check octave tuning and adjust accordingly.

ID - sure - Post some picc pics.

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Oh, right, that was a link to a photo. Duh.

Typical “nach Meyer” type piccolo, made any time between c1870-1940. Could be about earlier, but unlikely IMO. Cf Rick Wilson’s page on Meyer & nach Meyer. (http://www.oldflutes.com)