The appendices feature addresses, dates and serial numbers workshop photographs design features of Rudall Carte flutes price lists and fingering charts. Its contents also include photographs of flutes by the competitors of the time. It contains masses of lovely colour photographs all types of flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes and piccolos. This book details the history of the company and the instruments made. For much of their existence almost every professional flute player and most serious amateurs in Britain played on one of this firm’s instruments.’ ‘The firm of Rudall & Rose, later Rudall, Rose & Carte, and finally Rudall Carte, dominated flute making in Britain for a century and a half from their founding in 1822. New book – Rudall, Rose & Carte: The Art of the Flute in Britain – Robert BIGIO
