DCM 0388: Thomas Stanesby, junior Flute in C

Cap is engraved by hand with pen and plume, with monogram IN[?] or JN[?]. DCM ledger: "The flute has clearly been rebuilt, by the addition of the five keys, by cutting the tenon off the head, shortening the head to make high-pitch, by putting in a lining and slide joint (cut out by D.C.M.), and by enlarging the embouchure.... When received, a new crack was developing in head; to prevent its opening, the brass lining was removed, and by accident, the ivory was cracked at embouchure. A crack in the socket was opening wider, and the lining was cut by D.C.M. Jan. 4, 1924."

Instrument type: Flute in C

Medium: Ivory, wood end cap with silver disk, silver key and ferrules.; 59.6 cm.

Key Holes System: 1 key, square flat flap, pin in block. Also has 5 added keys from apparently 3 other instruments, all mounted with metal saddles. G# is applied with a machine screw, the others have pins but may have taken screws originally. G# and B-flat are silver flat round flaps, upper C and long F are nickel silver, also round flat flaps, short F is nickel silver with saltspoon cup.

Mark Maximum: STANESBY / IUNIOR

Mark Additional: Mark on all sections.

Condition: See Notes. Cracks in head and upper body.

Case: Case missing ivory inlay.

Provenance: John T. Shiel, Walkden, near Manchester, England, 4 Jan. 1924. Letter to DCM from John Shiel, 11 Dec. 1923: "I got it from a very old flute player many years ago. He told me he got it from Clinton. Clinton told him it was given to him by a nobleman."

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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