Three instruments attributed to" Hotteterre" are considered the earliest baroque flutes. But two of these, once in the collection of César Charles Snoeck, prove to be copies, made at different times in the nineteenth... more
Three instruments attributed to" Hotteterre" are considered the earliest baroque flutes. But two of these, once in the collection of César Charles Snoeck, prove to be copies, made at different times in the nineteenth century in La Couture-Boussey, Normandy. These, and other replicas made for the Brussels Conservatory and Dayton C. Miller collections, have fostered the growing myth of the" Hotteterre flute." Recently discovered flutes by Richard Haka and others argue against the presumption that the baroque flute was a sudden ...
