POTTER OF LONDON - UNUSUAL ANTIQUE 19TH CENTURY SINGLE DRUMSTICKS DRUM STICK.

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POTTER LONDON

Losses and damages.

Approx 37.5 cm long.

One of London’s most famous Woodwind Maker and Turner was  Richard Potter. The son of a Gardener he was born in Mitcham, Surrey in 1726 and apprenticed to John Bickerton, Citizen and Turner  for £5 in 1740.  He founded his own musical instrument making business in 1745 and became Master of the Turners’ Company in 1782. In 1785 Richard Potter caused a revolution in flute making when he patented a number of innovations to the German Flute of the day, most especially a calibrated tuning head which slid along brass tubes, for exact tuning to various pitches, and pewter plug keys. The Richard Potter Flute was a great commercial success and much admired by Mozart.