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Flute – HEIDEGGER, Georg

For sale here is a three-part flute made by the Bavarian maker Georg HEIDEGGER (1815-1859). Georg Heidegger was the first of a family of instrument makers active in Passau, Bavaria, Germany and Linz, Austria from the nineteenth right up to the twentieth century.

The flute is crafted in grenadilla and features six nickel silver keys and nickel silver rings. The keys are mounted on metal posts.  It is a typical example of a ‘Munich style’ flute of the mid-nineteenth century, with its three parts. The foot joint is special as rather than a normal C, it only goes down to play C-sharp. We haven’t come across many flutes with just a C-sharp foot joint – so quite rare indeed! It is a very professionally made instrument with a wonderful, small, carved, oval embouchure and a nicely made screw cork and cap.