Collection Abbreviation D-Frankfurt: M: Hist. Mus. Accession X 4260 (121) Maker Abbreviation Schrattenbach Lowest Note c''+ Size soprano (columnar) Year Made Pitch 440 Pieces 3 Length 532 Keys Material Body maple Material Mounts brass Material Keys Notes Stamped with a double trefoil & thus probaby by a member of the Schrattenbach family. Columnar recorder (lowest finger-hole gives the bottom note). The plinth & windcap are missing, replaced by a later bell & cap. Keywork & covers not original. Sounding length 269.5 mm. For critical measurements & other details see Andrew Brown's Renaissance Recorders Database; Brown (2005b: 534). Postel (1974) considers the Saeulenblockfloete Frankfurt 4260. He cites the well-known passage about the Oosters Huys by Burney (p. 146) and comes to the conclusion that this instrument and those in Paris were the instruments from Antwerp mentioned by Burney (p. 150).