Merci! C'est une flûte "Johann Friedrich Engelhard" en buis, la copie a eté realisée par Thomas Fehr d'après l'original conservé au Musée National des Instruments de Musique de Rome.

Diego, I love you, man. You are a true brother to me. You are so right. There is not enough of us. But I think that we will win this. Mozart was OK. But he learned it all from the Italians, as you note. Keep in touch with the Pergolesi Mafia. And don't tell anyone.

Wow! I am no longer "alone" in the world! With you and Leo I have found "great minds..." I used to say Mozart wrote beautiful melodic arrangements - until he went to Italy; THEN he wrote MUSIC!

The eminent Pergolesi scholar Marvin Paymer says so. I already knew it, anyhow, Leo Depuydt

Yep, beautiful but didn't have the Pergolesi "bite" and complexity...

The flute is an Engelhard, it's a copy from the original flute in the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali of Rome, made by Thomas Fehr

Pitch varied wildly in the baroque. Often higher than modern pitch in the early baroque, quite low in France ~390 and lower Germany ~408 and not 415. But no real standardization. Here is an Italian flute at 440 in the original: www.aurinflutes.com/Fridtjof-Aurin-Traversos/G.Castel-Baroque-Flute.html Giuseppe Castel’s workshop was presumably in Venetian, maybe in Venice itself, which is to be assumed from the Venetian lion on the stamp. A connect to Vivaldi is therefore most likely. The boxwood flute is fitted with wide ivory rings and a decoratively engraved silver key. It has a small oval shaped embouchure hole and a wide bore with surprisingly little taper. As a result, the flute has a very full and rounded tone, despite the high tuning of almost a=440 Hz, which was not unusual for Italian instruments

Minor correction. Pergolesi: The greatest composer of all time. But what you say about Pergolesi is some of the best that I have ever read about them.

@@leodepuydt308 the second in Italy and the second greatest... 🤪

@@eternafuentedeluzdivina3189 I'm with Leo on this! Numero Uno nel mondo!

@@DeirdreMcNamara you don't get it, right? To say the first in one thing like music is like to say there are not other contributors who already gave exquisite works that could show us the link between God and us. Yes! Pergolesi is wonderful, but to establish his supremacy over other composers is fall equally in the hype-ing movement of Bach as the greatest composer of the world, or Vivaldi, like other says just because their music infuses their souls with such energy and pleasure. I don't believe in such supremacy existences. Each work is unique, that we don't have the tools for understanding /feel /live each composition is our own fault! Just pray for some understanding to the Spiritu Consolatore Sanctum! He' will share his feeding bottle with you!

Did Pergolesi even write this? Other tracks on YT with the same concerto claim it's written by van Wassenaer, as well as other places. It is true that the Concerti Armonici, previously believed to be written by Pergolesi were actually written by van Wassenaer. Giving it the benefit of doubt, I'm trying to look at rhe integrity of whether Pergolesi truly wrote this, or just like the aforementioned concerti were merely transcriptions of van Wassenaer

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