Jean Firmin Brossa (1839-1915)
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In the late 1880’s Brossa worked on and perfected an addition to the Boehm key system. He devised an extra F# key for use by the third finger of the right hand which is still in use on some flutes today. The year 1895 seems to be the earliest recorded sale of a flute with his F# key fitted, the work being carried out by Schumacher at Rudall Carte’s workshop.
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