Hello everyone!, I was asked to make a quick introduction, so here it is. I'm a early flute student from Brazil, but I play mostly baroque flutes. My...
I have a Nicholson-marked (not the son, but the father) boxwood, small-holed 1-key flute. All sections merely have "Nicholson/London" on them. I imagine it was...
Dear all, For those in Los Angeles, I thought you might be interested in a concert I'm giving with a Dutch group at the Getty Center on December 6. We will be...
Terry, I appear to have missed hearing this sad news of Hélène's passing? Can you let me know any details? I have fond memories of a great day when she...
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Hi David ... I think Nicholson Senior was in Liverpool (where young Nicholson was born), so that's unlikely to be a flute made on his behalf. Could it be a...
... Hélène discovered she had cancer earlier this year. I spoke to her not long before she died. She was cheerful and was certain she would recover. The...
... Sorry, Rod, I thought I had passed on the news; I certainly intended to. I know no more than Robert has just mentioned. ... I spent the best part of a...
Thank you for this, Robert, As the years they wear on, we appear to fall through time exponentially, and good memories seem like just yesterday. I lost a dear...
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These are nice memories for us to read, Terry, thank you! I did know Anthony Baines in the 'seventies, and spent time with him, when he was still in charge of...
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Speaking of Nicholson flutes, I have an 8 key Thomas Prowse "Improved Nicholson" flute I'm trying to sell for a friend. It plays at A=440 and is in very good...
Hello, I finally published my memoir of Master in Musicology about the one-keyed flute making online : http://c.j.dulac.free.fr/CelinePro/ (sorry, it's written...
I don't doubt it is of the "Willis Fecit" variety, a flute made for Nicholson. I wonder if it was a flute Jr. may have had made for students? Before he got...
... I think I have an explanation about the one-key with small holes at a time when young Nicko was pushing 7-keys with big holes. Cheap one-key flutes were...
... I have not, but would be happy to. ... Terry, I really like your points, all of them heading to the point of figuring this flute clearly was for a student,...
... I'd say a good likelihood, though we could never rule out the possibility that another teacher (eg one of Nicholson's more advanced students) acquired the...
... I don't think we should assume this -- or that Nicholson even knew about these one-key flutes with his name on them. The one-key flute stamped NICHOLSON /...
The Jacob van Eyck Quarterly is alive! With the delay of almost one year, volume 2007/1 has appeared today: "Jacob van Eyck gets a memorial stone". Numbers 2,...
Rick A good point, but I don't doubt that Florio -- as likely Nicholson -- had beginner students who are best to start with the inexpensive (boxwood) 1-key...
Hi All I wonder about Drouet flutes. Are Langwill and Waterhouse right about him? Was there a Drouet patent? What about the flutes he signed? Philippe...
I suspect that Nicholson -- even when he was young or having hard times in the 1830s -- would be unlikely to take on students who used one-key flutes....
... I agree with Rick that it would have been unlikely for Charles Nicholson to have had students who used such cheap flutes. Nicholson was a very up-market...
IMHO people are getting carried away here. There is absolutely nothing, bar the name stamp, to connect this flute with either Nicholson. Nicholson is a...
... having hard ... who used ... and ... keys, ... he would ... Nicholson ... a guinea a ... one pound plus ... unskilled worker ... 70 pounds per ... see that...
All valid points, gentlemen! But as we all seem to agree, mere speculation. We have much evidence that forgeries -- or the efforts to capitalize on a player's...
... What do we know of the young Nicholson when he first hit London? Did he arrive in triumph in a coach and six to the strains of Hail the Conquering Hero...
... Very interesting, Gino! So, from a starting point of zero a week or so ago, we suddenly have two flutes marked Nicholson/London! Whoops, now three. A...
... My understanding (without looking anything up) is that he arrived, as a young man, without fanfare... but almost instantly achieved fame and fortune. ... ...
