WELCOME ... To Little Wizard Enterprises Inventory Page!
** NEW SPECIAL PRICING - ALL ON SUPER SALE, for now.... **
Last updated: January 31, 2024
LITTLE WIZARD ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 38
West Linn, OR 97068
Phone: 503-305-6819; Email:jan@flutenet.com
PAYPAL can be used for purchase (can't do credit cards there... but given our history of
honor, non-profit structure, and mututal support all the way, we can elect another option via that route - contact me and we'll make that work easily too!
Here's what is currently available and ready to ship - ONLY ONE LEFT NOW, CURRENTLY AVAILABLE! More info below
Little Wizard Enterprises provides consignment sales of selected, hard-to-find books 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! As stated above, we are not equipped to handle charge cards, but
will be happy to receive your check or money order -- AND as noted above, we ALSO NOW HAVE PAYPAL as a way to send/receive payment, which would get your purchase sent out almost immediately! You might wish to give us a call to make sure we haven't run out of what you wish to order.
IF YOU'RE REALLY IN A HURRY: As noted above, 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
SPECIAL NEW PRICING: $75.00 (US Funds), plus $18.00 for US shipping via Priority mail with insurance and tracking number (we have found this 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!)