AN IMPROVED GERMAN FLUTE, CLARIONETT, AND OBOE
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SCOTT, of Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Musical Instrument Maker,
send greeting.
His
WHEREAS is present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing late at West-
minster, the Twelfth day of March last, for Himself, is heirs, and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Scott, His special licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Scott, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself and themselves, or by my
or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as T, the said
Thomas Scott, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED GERMAN FLUTE, CLARIONETT, AND
OBOE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Thomas Scott, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularlarly to describe the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in Ilis Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months

page_text: next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Scott, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to to be 'performed, by the Plan or 5
Drawing annexed to these Presents, and the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
Figure 1 is a view of the exterior of the flute without the additional keys.
Figure 2 is a section of the interior of the flute, shewing the partition,
by means of which the additional notes are produced without the use of 10
keys.
Figure 3 is a section of the internal part of the end of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a view of the exterior of the flute, by which the fingering on
the difficult keys is simplified.
Figure 5 is a section of part of the second joint of Figure 4, and applied in 15
place of Figure 7, by means of which when the thumb of the left hand is
pressed on the pallet or key it produces B flat, and when the thumb is taken
from the key off, it produces the note B natural.
Figure 6 is a section of part of the third joint of Figure 4, by means of
which, when the pallet and koy are pressed by the thumb of the right hand, it 20
produces F natural, and when the thumb is taken off from the said pallet and
key, it produces F sharp.
Figure 7 is a section of part of the Figure 4 at note B, and by turning
round the collar marked A until the holes are opposite, as seen in Figure 8,
produces the note B natural.
Figure 8 is a section of the internal part of the end of Figure 7.
Figure 9 is a section of the internal part of the end of Figure 8, by which
is delineated the collar marked A, and which collar, when turned the contrary
way to that of Figure 8, produces the note B flat.
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Figures 10 and 11 describe a different mode by which the same effects are 30
produced as the Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, by means of a cylindrical slide
moved by the pallet marked B, and according to the different positions as
represented, thereby produce the notes either flat or natural.
In witness whereof, I have here set my hand and seal, this Eleventh
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 85
and ten.
THOS SCOTT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eleventh day of May,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Scott came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Imolled the same Eleventh day of May, in the year above written.