Rudall 1 Tavistock Street, striker plates?

Irish Flute
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Saw a photo of a Rudall & Rose with the No. 1 Tavistock Street, London adress. Looks to be a patent head model. However the foot joint C and C# keys have the round striker plates? My 1890’s Rudall & Carte has round striker plates, so I was surprised to see these on a Rudall from the earlier Tavistock period 1838-1847. I thought the striker plates would have been square? Is it possible that a later foot joint has replaced the original.

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Just seen a a photo here of a nr 1 Tavistock Rudall that also has the round striker plates for the C & C# keys so prehaps during the 1838-1847 period they started supplying the round striker plates
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/mcgoldrick-mcsherry-new-album/91/1

On page 4 of 5

Also here round striker plates so I guess they are original
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/rudall-rose-carte-flute-on-ebay-in-oz/71338/6

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I will look at the catalogue tonight, Steamy…I have in there about when the round plates first appeared on the foot joints.

I believe they were part of the No1 address series, but won’t say definitively until i take a look.

until this evening…

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Thanks David, no hurry, just wondering. Saw square plates on a 3xxx series Rudall, but haven’t seen a photo of the plates on a 4xxx series Rudall. Prehaps the change occured on the 5xxx series run. They prehaps used up the new “old stock square plates” and then started using the round plates? Or maybe square plates turned up even on later models until the stock was used up.

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My #4683 and my #47xx low Bb from 1 Tavistock St. in the early-mid 1840s both have square plates. I would have guessed but don’t know that the round plates came in in the RRC era and I think they’re chiefly a feature of GS fitted flutes, not so much of sterling fitted ones.

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Okay. apologies for not having looked sooner as promised.

Remember, the information (if used elsewhere) must be attributed to research from RudallRose.com
Thanks.

The catalogue shows the square strike plates on the foot joints of simple-system Rudall&Rose flutes last appear regularly (there are a couple of later serial number flutes, but that’s very likely a stock-sale issue)…

Serial # 4921 has square plates (and those before it).

Serial # 4929 has round plates. (and those after it)

That means round plates first appeared sometime between #4922 and 4929.


There you have it.

dm