5 Clement's Inn was Rudall's home and business address, but as he was not an instrument maker it's unlikely he had workshop facilities there. It's likely that all the flutes made by Willis for George Rudall, stamped 'GEO. RUDALL/WILLIS FECIT/LONDON' were made at Angel Court. The designation XXXX indicates that the instrument probably has a serial number, but I don't yet know it. I have not yet found an instrument stamped with address of John Willis's first workshop (3 Angel Court, Strand, London) which has a serial number, although the lowest numbered instruments in the list (up to c.#200) might have been made there. The few exceptions to this are here given the arbitrary serial number 0000, and are included because they are interesting or exceptional in some way. ![]() Instruments without serial numbers are not generally included here as the purpose of this table is to test the theory that there is a continuous sequence of numbered instruments from the latter workshop, and that this included flutes made for and branded by other resellers. ![]() Extant John Willis, Willis & Goodlad, Goodlad and other wind instruments associated with the 3 Angel Court and 25 Villiers Street workshops Instruments with low (3 digit) serial numbers are here assigned a leading '0' to aid sorting, though of course this wasn't the practice on the instruments themselves.
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