Their principal supplier was Charles Attwood Goodison, but stock was also purchased from Keat, Sax, Gautrot, Mahillon and unnamed French and Italian makers.

Rudall Carte sold instruments from different makers. Nevertheless, serial numbers can give a good indication of date of manufacture. but that instruments varied in the length of time between date of order and date of delivery. It can be assumed that serial numbers were allocated chronologically when instruments were ordered. The chronological order of dates on which instruments were entered into stock corresponds only approximately to serial number order. Instrument 753 can be no earlier than 1862, the date of Samson's patent for finger-slide valves. The lowest number in the this sequence is not known. Most Rudall Carte brass instruments and some saxophones appear to have been numbered in a single sequence of serial numbers. The author welcomes comments, corrections and further information, e-mail: a.myersed.ac.uk Wherever possible one of the authors (Arnold Myers or Frank Tomes) has examined the item, but in other cases the information has come from the published catalogues, check-lists and websites of museums or from personal communications.

The location is not extant but we copied the details for research purposes from the archives, now in the care of the Horniman Museum, London.

one of the authors (Arnold Myers and Frank Tomes) has examined the item.

details have been communicated by an owner.

mentioned in a publication such as an exhibition or auction catalogue, or listed on eBay.This list includes instruments which are in one of the following categories: Rudall Carte brasswind Journal of surviving Rudall Carte brass instruments, saxophones and sarrusophones, with archival and catalogue data

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