DCM 1495: Catherine Folkers Flute Head Joint

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DCM 1495: Catherine Folkers Flute Head Joint

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This head joint is meant to be a performance device to help preserve the original (DCM 507). It also attempts to approximate the original embouchure hole to an oval shape. Scanned with DCM 507; DCM 1495 on left, DCM 507 on right.
Instrument type: Flute Head Joint
Medium: Boxwood, light-colored, stained reddish brown.; 22.1 cm. (without cap)
Mark Maximum: C E FOLKERS
Provenance: Catherine Folkers, Virginia, 1985, former Curator of the Dayton C. Miller Collection.

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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1700 - 1900
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alexandria
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