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Schwedler was born in Hirschberg im Riesengebirge, Silesia (now in Poland) to August and Selma Schröter Schwedler. He expressed an interest in music at a young age; his mother bought him a two-keyed wooden flute along with a copy of Examples for Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute at an estate sale and he took his first lessons from a former military musician. [3]
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Two of his six children, Henry W. Carte (1856–1926) and Richard D'Oyly Carte, were both to become important in their own fields: the first as flute-maker and the second for staging the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. [1] The other children were Blanch (1846–1935), Viola (1848–1925), Rose (1854–1940 [2]) and Eliza (1860–1941). [3]
In 1888, they were commissioned by Edward Heindl, the then-Principal Flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to make him a Boehm system wood flute. [3] [4] The Haynes brothers then produced over 500 flutes with the (unrelated) JC Haynes Company in Boston. Their 507th flute was the first of the new Haynes Company, established in 1888. [5]
flute maker Nathaniel "Tip" Lamberson (1922–2005), also known as "N.D. Lamberson", was one of the premier American flute makers. Tip made a total of 730 flutes from 1968 to 1985, when he officially retired from the flute-making industry.
[3] [4] In his early years, he made his own pads from felt and animal intestine skins, assisted by his father when pads were scarce. [5] Hutton sourced gold and silver from various means, including recovery from photographic processes, and made alloys for flute making. On average, crafting a flute took him about 200 hours.
McBirnie was solicited personally by Sir James Galway to serve as the resident Jazz Flute Specialist at his official website in 2005. He is the only flutist to have won all three of the US National Flute Association 's jazz flute Masterclass (2003), Big Band (2009) and Soloist (2012) Competitions.
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