This beautiful Louis LOT silver-plated flute from the Debonneetbeau erawas fully restored and in its original case. Listen to a marvellous sound sample of this flute playing Syrinx by Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918).

It was made after Louis LOT (1807-96)  had retired and his first successor Honoré Désiré VILLETTE had literally just left the company and gone into retirement too. The maker? Louis Ernest Debonneetbeau de Coutelier (1836-1891).  He was first workshop manager and then owner of the Louis Lot company from 1882-1889 and built the Lot flutes 3392 to 4750.

We can date this flute to 1882. So this is one of the first few flutes that were sold under Debonneetbeau’s name. It plays very nicely with the typical characteristics of a Louis Lot flute. It has a lovely small embouchure 10.05 x 11.75 mm and the instrument is very light weight. The lip-plate is made of unhallmarked silver. The sound is very bright and elegant and it plays at around a=438 Hz.