*RARE* 1940s Silver Saxette Musical Instrument Flute Like Tone Whistle Recorder

Description

*RARE* 1940s Silver Saxette Musical Instrument Flute Like Tone Whistle Recorder.
• It provided a simple, inexpensive instrument that was particularly adaptable for use by children, wanting to learn how to read music and play an instrument.
• It would be made of a metal, tubular (read cylindrical) body, which ended in a flared bell.
• The body tube had multiple tone holes of varying diameters.
• On the back of the body tube, just above the bell, there was a tone-regulating opening.
• It had a right thumb rest.
• It had a lyre holder.
• The mouthpiece was made of plastic.
• The mouthpiece was designed with a baffle and chambers that direct the air where it is supposed to go: through the instrument. (No reed or other accessories required.)
• Due to its construction, this instrument plays in the key of G, in perfectly in-tune octave intervals.
• The instrument’s flute-like tone is in large part coming from the large resonating chamber in the mouthpiece (12 in Fig. 3 of patent drawing).
This rare Saxette has cosmetic blemishes on its body.
Mouth piece has 2 cracks.
Thumb rest is bent.