Photo of DCM 0265: Anonymous Pitch Pipe - Public domain dedication
Summary
Upper edge parchment(?) lining is marked with lines and note names, now mostly illegible. Letter from Beaman to DCM, 19 Feb. 1923, "The Old Pitch Pipe is a Relic of Old Westminster Mass my Native Town, no doubt was used in the First Church there & should say it is at least 150 years old & perhaps more."
Instrument type: Pitch Pipe
Medium: Mahogany.; 16.8 x 7.9 x 2.65 cm.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Mark Additional: Owner mark: G. W. Beaman, Princeton, Mass. The lining at the end of the pitch slide is pencilled: 1756
Provenance: Gamaliel W. Beaman, Princeton, Massachusetts, 12 July 1922.
The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.
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