The instrument business also grew, with the acquisition of Thomas Key, a military musical instrument maker, and they started to sell brass and percussion instruments. In addition to flute works, Rudall Carte published The Musical Directory, an annual guide to the music business in Britain.
It was at this time, under Richard Carte, that the firm moved into publishing. Subsequently, from the early 1850s, Richard Carte brought his business skill to the firm and presided over a vast growth. The firm then bought the British rights to make Boehm’s 1847 cylindrical flute, which has remained the standard to the present.
At first they made simple-system flutes, but Richard Carte (1808-1891), Rudall's student, persuaded Rudall to make Theobald Boehm’s early conical flutes.
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George Rudall (1781-1871), a professional flautist and flute teacher, saw the potential market for flutes, and recruited John Mitchell Rose (1793-1866) of the firm Wood, Small & Co in Edinburgh, setting up a workshop in London in 1822 with the name Rudall & Rose. Rudall & Rose, later Rudall, Rose & Carte, and finally Rudall Carte, was the major manufacturer of flutes in the UK from about 1820 to 1950. The catalogue contained works for flute and a few for other wind instruments. This firm published music in London from the 1850s until 1955, when it was bought by Boosey & Hawkes.
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