Transverse flute

This instrument was originally owned by Wm. Divine, principal flute Royal Artillery (Woolwich) Band between 1825 and 1842, and later Bandmaster 4th Light Dragoons. It is a side-blown flute made of boxwood in five sections (head, barrel, upper and middle joints, and foot), with ivory ferrules and silver keywork. It has six pewter-plug-cup keys (i.e. a nineteenth-century type of key in which the pad…