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Albert Cooper (flute maker)

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Cooper's primary contribution to flute making is the Cooper Scale, where the position and size (opening) of the flute's tone holes have been accurately determined. This has been now universally adopted and is promoted by all the major flute makers, in particular the flute maker
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until World War II. After discharge, he returned to Rudall Carte but left in 1959 and set himself up as flute maker.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20050901081533/http://www.stratford-flute.co.uk/albert.htm
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scale and measurements still being used in flute manufacture into the 1990s.
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Albert Cooper Flute Competition that ran from 1990 to 2007. Original site
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http://www.fluteworx.co.za/articles/ACooper0209.pdf
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flute
Rudall Carte
Brannen Brothers
Boehm system
"Remembering Albert Cooper"
"The Intonation of the Modern Flute"
Interview with Alexander Eppler
http://www.stratford-flute.co.uk/albert.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050901081533/http://www.stratford-flute.co.uk/albert.htm
http://www.fluteworx.co.za/articles/ACooper0209.pdf
Categories
Flute makers
1924 births
2011 deaths
British musical instrument makers

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