DCM 0736: Anonymous End-Blown Flute
Summary
DCM ledger: "Madagascar."
Instrument type: End-Blown Flute
Medium: Bamboo. Animal horn mouthpiece ferrule, middle ferrule, and small bell at lower end.; 36.7 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/6 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: C. Van Raalte Collection, Brownsea Castle Sale, 21 June 1927, Bournemouth, England, obtained by Harold Reeves, London, on behalf of DCM, received 6 Aug. 1927. Formerly in the collection of Mr. T. W. Taphouse, Oxford.
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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