DCM 1199: Rushworth & Dreaper Vertical Whistle Flute
Summary
DCM ledger: "...designed for school-children for their 'handicraft' activities...made by H. Courtenay Buckley."
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute
Medium: Bamboo.; 49.7 cm.
Key Holes System: 1/6 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Condition: Crack through entire fingerhole rank and cracked on back from thumbholes to end, plus another crack in upper end.
Provenance: William Rushworth, Liverpool, England, 15 Sept. 1933.
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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