Brannen began with Powell in 1962, joined Armstrong several years later and returned to Powell in 1970. Jack Moore and Tom Green worked in the Heritage department and, for several years, so did Bickford Brannen. The Heritage flute was marketed as an instrument of equal quality but more readily available to the buyer. In the late sixties Haynes and Powell were both quoting three to five year delivery times. The Heritage department at Armstrong was a separate division within the factory, dedicated to producing a high-quality instrument to compete with the best Boston makers. Gold springs, all new pads, modern leather covered case with case cover. Extruded tone holes, Y-arm pad cup construction. Sounding length is 436 mm (A=440), the embouchure measures 10.3 X 12.1 mm. It's a superb instrument made in the Armstrong (Elkhart) workshop in the late 1960's. Armstrong First Generation "Heritage" solid silver flute #H-1267.
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