Musical Instruments - DCM 0783: Anonymous French Flageolet

Instrument type: French Flageolet

Medium: Ebony, with (originally) ivory mouthpiece and ferrules.; 35.3 cm.

Key Holes System: 2/4 holes.

Mark Maximum: No mark.

Condition: Mouthpiece cracked and unsatisfactorily repaired with decorative silver ferrule. Lower section of sponge chamber cracked at upper ferrule. Fipple section cracked in 2 places, original bottom ferrule missing, replaced with aluminum ferrule to address cracked condition.

Provenance: Harold Reeves, London, 8 May 1928. Formerly in the de Léry 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.