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Last updated: August 13, 2011
LITTLE WIZARD ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 38
West Linn, OR 97068
Phone: 503-305-6819; Email:jan@flutenet.com
Important information about HOW TO ORDER FROM LITTLE WIZARD ENTERPRISES
Here's what is currently available and ready to ship - Little Wizard's Short list:
Little Wizard Enterprises provides consignment sales of selected, hard-to-find books and cassettes of interest to flutists and flute teachers (and perhaps even to "those who love them"). We currently have the following items available and ready to ship! We are not equipped to handle charge cards, but will be happy to receive your check or money order. You might wish to give us a call to make sure we haven't run out of what you wish to order. And, if you live in California, please remember the sales tax!
IF YOU'RE REALLY IN A HURRY: We now have a way of receiving your payment via PayPal (I have a personal account with them which we CAN use if you wish - as I understand it, it won't accept your credit card (that's because of their rules for the kind of PayPal account we have), but it might still be a good way for us to receive your payment quickly - and then we can send your order out the next day! Just let me know your wishes and I'll give you the particulars for how to do this - email: jan@flutenet.com, be sure to include something to the effect of "Little Wizard Order and Paypal??" in your subject line so I'll recognize that your note is NOT sneaky spam - and we'll coordinate the details!....)
Now, here's our current inventory -- Enjoy your browse, and please let us know if we can help with any questions (jansp@flutenet.com)...
Hard cover book: Rudall, Rose & Carte: The Art of the Flute in Britain by Robert Bigio.
The firm of Rudall & Rose, later Rudall, Rose & Carte, and finally Rudall Carte, dominated flute making in Britain for a century and a half from their founding in 1822. For much of their existence almost every professional flute player and most serious amateurs in Britain played on one of this firm’s instruments.
The original firm, Rudall & Rose, produced simple-system flutes of the highest quality before they were persuaded by Richard Carte, a student of George Rudall, to begin production of Theobald Boehm’s early conical flute. The firm went on to buy the British rights to manufacture Boehm’s 1847 cylindrical flute, which is the basis of the instrument most flute players use today. Richard Carte, a brilliant businessman, joined the firm as a partner in the early 1850s and transformed them from a small business producing high-quality flutes to a hugely-successful concern that produced and sold flutes and most other instruments as well as publishing books, music and, for eight decades, The Musical Directory, an annual guide to the music business in Britain. Rudall, Rose & Carte, as they became, bought the business of Thomas Key, military musical instrument maker, adding brass and percussion instruments to their catalogue. In addition to their instruments and publications, the firm promoted concerts, for a time under the management of Richard Carte’s son, Richard D’Oyly Carte, who later made his fortune promoting the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. The firm became Rudall, Carte & Company in 1872.
This book is a comprehensive history of the firm and contains detailed descriptions of the many innovative instruments they made. There are hundreds of colour photographs of flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes and piccolos, each shown in at least two views, and where necessary in three or four views with photographs of details. The firm’s output is shown in context with photographs of dozens of flutes made by their competitors including Willis, Prowse, Monzani, Wood, Wylde, ‘Pratten’s Perfected’ by Boosey & Co., Fentum, Godfroy, Koch, Boehm, Laurent, Gerock, Badger, Ward, Card, Siccama, Clinton, Lot, Collard and Boehm & Mendler.
The book includes a lavishly-illustrated Gallery containing hundreds of photographs... Appendices include addresses, dates and serial numbers; workshop photographs; design features of Rudall Carte flutes; price lists; and fingering charts. Hardbound. 336 pages. 264mm by 196mm. ISBN 978-0-946113-09-5
$148.00 (US Funds), plus $11.00 for US shipping via Priority mail or FedEx (we have found these shipping methods to be far more secure, rapid and mutually satisfactory than the USPS Media Mail we used to be able to use, so this added cost is now necessary. If you are buying more than one item though, all going to the same address, we can certainly combine shipping - write me for a quote!)
Hard cover book: GREAT FLUTE MAKERS OF FRANCE - The Lot and Godfroy Families, 1650 - 1900, by Tula Giannini, with an introduction by Laurence Libin
This comprehensive corpus of new information documenting the history and work of the two most important families of French flute makers. This profusely illustrated book, based on primary source material, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the social and musical contexts in which the French woodwind instrument makers worked. 245 pages.
$96.00 (US Funds), plus $11.00 for US shipping via Priority mail or FedEx (we have found these shipping methods to be far more secure, rapid and mutually satisfactory than the USPS Media Mail we used to be able to use, so this added cost is now necessary. If you are buying more than one item though, all going to the same address, we can certainly combine shipping - write me for a quote!)
Book -Readings in the History of the Flute, monograph, essays, reviews, letters and advertisements from nineteenth-century London. Selected and edited with an introduction by Robert Bigio, 2006. Paperback. 360pp. 33 b&w illustrations.
The following are included:
Charles Nicholson: "A Word or Two" to Mr. W. N. James (1829).
W. N. James: Mr. James's Answer to Mr. Nicholson (1829).
Miscellany (1836-1857): Consisting of letters and advertisements from The Times and Musical World.
William Annand: A Few Words on the Flute (1843).
Cornelius Ward: The Flute Explained (1844).
John Clinton: A Treatise Upon the Mechanism and General Principles of the Flute (1851).
Richard Carte: Sketch of the Successive Improvements Made in the Flute (1851).
John Clinton: A Few Practical Hints to Flute Players (1855).
Thomas Clotworthy Skeffington: "The Flute" in its Transition State (1862).
Theobald Böhm:An Essay on the Construction of Flutes (1847, published 1882)
$68.00 (US Funds), plus $11 US shipping via Priority mail or FedEx (we have found these shipping methods to be far more secure, rapid and mutually satisfactory
than the USPS Media Mail we used to be able to use, so this added cost is now necessary. If you are buying more than one item though, all going to the same address, we can certainly
combine shipping - write me for a quote!) .
How To Order this/these item(s)...
Hard cover Book: A Word or Two on the Flute - by W. N. James
This wonderful hard cover book gives a personal & idiosyncratic view of flutes, flute players & their playing... This is a facsimile of the First Edition of 1826 with a new introduction A Word or Two on W. N. James, by Stephen Preston. ....."In these notices Mr. James appears to exercise strict impartiality, knowledge and a discriminate judgment" (From an original review in the Quarterly Musical Magazine). ....."And it is through these notices that we can view the flute scene of that period"... "left a fascinating and enduring little monument to the flute players of the first quarter of the 19th century.." (...Stephen Preston, from his Introduction.)
$32.00 (US Funds), plus $9.00 for US shipping via Priority mail or FedEx (we have found these shipping methods to be far more secure, rapid and mutually satisfactory
than the USPS Media Mail we used to be able to use, so this added cost is now necessary. If you are buying more than one item though, all going to the same address, we can certainly
combine shipping - write me for a quote!)
(NOTE: Currently two copies of this wonderful little book are again available in the drawer here...)
Hardback book: The NEW Langwill Index -- A Dictionary of Musical Wind- Instrument Makers and Inventors... by William Waterhouse.
'This book has been conceived as an entirely new work rather than a revision of his sixth edition' (author's preface). This completely new edition of the late Lyndesay Langwill's Index has been keenly awaited ever since the latter went out of print a decade ago. In scope and detail it bears little comparison with its predecessor, which it now supersedes and replaces as the standard work in its field. As the most comprehensive work on wind-instrument makers in any language, it is a major reference tool for the ever-increasing number of collectors and researchers. Entries for nearly 6,500 makers and inventors active until the middle of this century; nearly 400 reproductions of makers' marks distributed throughout the text; and much more included in the 560 pages.
$174. (US Funds), plus $16.00 (this is a big, heavy book) for US shipping via Priority mail or FedEx (we have found these shipping methods to be far more secure, rapid and mutually satisfactory than the USPS Media Mail we used to be able to use, so this added cost is now necessary. If you are buying more than one item though, all going to the same address, we can certainly combine shipping - write me for a quote!) .
OK - Here's the story: All of the following CD's listed here are brand new -- and in keeping with our mission, are available through Little Wizard Enterprises by special arrangement. Consequently, we've worked hard to be able to make them available to you at the best possible price! (There are some remarkable bargains here for those persistent enough to deal with the small print...!)
Also, you need to know that there may only be one or two of each CD listed here -- so if you see something you like, act quickly (you may even want to call or email ahead to check on whether the ones you are looking for are still available)! Also, feel free to call or email if you'd like more details of any kind about these CD's.
HAL OTT -- Flute For Thought...
Flute For Thought - Music by 20th Century American Composers. With Mia Spencer, Soprano and piano, and Andrew Spencer, Percussion. Works by: David N. Baker, Salvador Brotons, Wallingford Riegger, John Boda, and Robert J. Frank. 49'38"
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