Music Division

According to Betty Austin Hensley, whistle has no flue, must insert top of head in mouth to blow. Instrument type: Whistle Medium: Terracotta, in form of seated monkey.; 4.6 cm. (height) Key Holes System: 3 ho More

The head and foot joint have stamped near their socket ferrules a figure "7" and all 4 body joints have the same figure 7 stamped at both ends. These appear to be guide marks for the player (perhaps for the ama More

An unusual piccolo originally in 4 joints although the head joint is missing. The upper body joint is marked "3" indicating there may have been interchangeable upper joints. Instrument type: Piccolo in E-flat ( More

All left pipe keys appear to be original; of the right pipe keys, only the 1st finger key is possibly original although abused on the finger spatula when a spring and rivet were replaced. The F key is obviously More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Silver-plated brass.; 65.1 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, conical bore, simple system. Like standard metal clarinets, the toneholes have raised chimneys. The six fingerholes More

This instrument has some interesting, apparently maker, mistakes. Opposite the embouchure hole, the inner wall has a slight hole, possibly an accident from the original pilot drill. The foot joint reveals probl More

Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo tube, with edge and block whistle.; 22.75 cm. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes. Mark Maximum: TAIWAN Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collec More

German (artist nationality) engraver and publisher (artist role) Recto: l. l.: (at bottom edge of image) Cum Priv. S. C. Majest.; l. r.: Martin Engelbrecht fec: et exc. A.V.; l. c.: (title, above text in old Ge More

Instrument type: Soprano Recorder in C Medium: Pear, nickel silver ferrule.; 29.85 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. Mark Maximum: RUDOLF OTTO'S / CHORFLÖTE Mark Additional: Mark on head. Provenance: A. V. Ebbl More

Instrument type: Piccolo in D-flat Medium: Boxwood, bone cap and ferrules, brass key.; 29.8 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, round flat flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: S Mark Additional: Mark on head, body. Cond More

Instrument type: Flute in G Medium: Boxwood, stained dark reddish brown, brass key.; 83 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: * // I.B. / WILLEMS / IB (monogram) Mark Additional More

Instrument type: Cuckoo Pipe Medium: Rosewood, brass, nickel silver.; 15.95 cm. Key Holes System: 0/1 hole. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Lower section cracked. Provenance: Fenton, London, 14 June 1926. T More

Instrument type: Transverse --? Medium: Bamboo, unusually straight, with glossy bark, elegantly decorated with black ink-filled carving. Balsam(?) cork plug.; 41.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximu More

Instrument type: Piccolo in E-flat Medium: Cocus, nickel silver keys (bushed) and ferrules.; 25.6 cm. (as is) Key Holes System: 5 keys, modern style key cups, pin in block. Mark Maximum: (unicorn head) / HY. P More

Instrument type: End-Blown Flute (Reed Pipe?) Medium: Wood, (type identifed in DCM ledger as: "Bzyna").; 32.4 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: G. Meriggioli, Seattle, Washing More

The wooden flue cover is carved in the form of a horse's head. DCM attributes to Iroquois, Betty Austin Hensley attributes to Cheyenne or Winnebago. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medi More

Register slide in foot. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, silver keys, ivory cap, cork-setting mechanism, and ferrules, silver keys.; 60.2 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, saltspoon, pin in block. The More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Ebonite, silver keys and ferrules.; 66.3 cm. Key Holes System: Carte's 1867 patent (see DCM 14) with Collard's modifications, British patent no. 4661, 1885. Cylindrical. Thi More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, nickel silver keys and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 67.1 cm. Key Holes System: Cylindrical Boehm system for the left hand, old system for the right hand including bot More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood(?), lightly stained, brass key, and ivory ferrules.; 59.05 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flat flap. Mark Maximum: GEIB / 23 / MAIDENLANE / NEW-YORK Mark Additi More

Has 3 corps de rechange, although it may have had more. Upper end of head joint has a threaded tenon, possibly not original, to receive a now missing end cap, likely ivory, applied that way. The present end cap More

Instrument type: Nay (End-Blown Flute) Medium: Cane.; 61.5 cm. Key Holes System: 1/6 holes, burned in. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: M. El Mahdi, Tunisia, 27 Nov. 1959. The Dayton C. Miller collection in More

Lower, foot, marked: BAINBRIDGE. Instrument type: Flute Flageolet Medium: Boxwood, ivory end cap, mouthpiece, labium, and ferrules. Silver keys.; 61.5 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, square (chamfered). Pin in b More

Instrument type: Whistle Medium: Bone, rattan winding, thong.; 16.4 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: George R. Moore, Jamesville, Wisconsin, 20 Feb. 1922. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, silver keys and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 67 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon, pewter plugs over rectangular metal plates for C#, C. Pin in block. Mark Maxi More

DCM ledger: "Winnebago Tribe." [and] "Made of cane with a knot at sound hole. Thong holding paper for upper lip...used with Winnebago war bundles and in winterfeasts." Instrument type: Whistle Medium: Cane, tho More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver with nickel plated keys, ferrules, and other fittings.; 69.7 cm. Key Holes System: 13 keys, foot to B, post and rod with pins, modern style key cup More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Silver plated.; 67.3 cm. Key Holes System: Old system arranged in style of Boehm system, cylindrical, 14 keys. Boehm principals, i.e., fully vented, large toneholes, but old More

Bottom of lowest (foot) joint perforated with 12 vent holes. Originally with strut. Instrument type: Bass Recorder Medium: Wood, stained, possibly maple, brass crook, wood mouthpiece, ivory ferrules.; 112.9 cm More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap and ferrules, brass key.; 58.7 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap. Pin in block. Mark Maximum: (spread eagle) / I. G. HELT (on scroll) Mark Addition More

Instrument type: Fango-Fango (Nose Flute) Medium: Bamboo.; 54.5 cm. Key Holes System: 1/5 holes, one of which is treated as an embouchure hole at either end. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not known More

Instrument type: Shinobue or Takebue (Tranvsverse Flute) Medium: Bamboo, lacquered red inside, horn cap inset with bone, horn end ferrule.; 41.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Conditio More

Instrument type: Flute in E-flat Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap and ferrules, brass keys.; 50.3 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, round flat flaps. Pin in block. Large Nicholson-like fingerholes 4, 5, and embouchure h More

Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Metal, with plastic fipple section.; 31.85 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: BTE S.G.D.G. / IMT (monogram) / PARIS Provenance: Pierre Schneider, Par More

Instrument type: Treble (Alto) Recorder in F Medium: Boxwood, stained reddish brown.; 52.45 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. Mark Maximum: (fleur-de-lis) / BIZEY / ... Mark Additional: Mark on head, body, and More

Pitched approximately an octave above normal C piccolo. This instrument is obviously the work of an amateur builder in an attempt to produce a flute approximately an octave above the standard C (D-flat?) piccol More

The foot joint, if totally original, is unusual in that the socket is typically cut away as if to receive an ornate ferrule of another material. However, the ornate ferrule which surrounds it is of ivory and ap More

DCM ledger: "Made especially for this Collection." Instrument type: Piccolo in C Medium: Silver.; 31.4 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, closed G#. Mark Maximum: WM. S. HAYNES CO. / BOSTON, MASS. / 14276 Mar More

Instrument type: Fife in A-flat (B-flat) Medium: Cocus, brass end ferrules.; 42.5 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: FIRTH, SON & C° / NEW_YORK. / B Case: Case. Provenance: Estate of Joseph Fischer More

Instrument type: Zummara (Double Pipe, Single Reeds) Medium: Bamboo, bound with string.; 19.85 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Missing both upper shank and reed sections. Pro More

Instrument type: End-Blown Flute Medium: Cane.; 76.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Miss Desirée Ellinger (Mrs. Henry Carte, of Rudall, Carte & Co.) Collection, sale, Putti More

DCM ledger: "American Indian, Chippewa." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified soft wood, leather thong.; 40.6 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus 5 vent holes at botto More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver keys, tenons, and lined sockets (with inner tube).; 67.5 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, with Schleiff key, and patent B-flat/C trill key. Mark More

DCM ledger: "Assiniboine Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Light wood, likely pine, stained brown, lead flue plate, wood flue cover stained a darker brown. Rawhide More

Instrument type: Cuckoo Whistle Medium: Carved wood.; 14.6 cm. Key Holes System: 1 hole. Mark Maximum: Cockoo / Bellagio / 1899 Mark Additional: Marked in black ink. Condition: Tip of beak broken off. Provenan More

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 unsatisfactoril More

The lower body joint socket ferrule is a 2-part design with a machine threaded tenon and socket mechanism, purpose unknown. When threaded together, the device simply forms the socket, with the ferrule length be More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Rosewood(?), nickel silver key and ferrules.; 60.05 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, saltspoon. Blind pin. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Missing foot joint ferrule. Provenan More

DCM ledger: "American Indian, Winnebago." The simple carved oak flue cover is attached with string, although very likely originally attached with leather thong. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute (Courtin More

DCM ledger: "Exotic Pipe - Arabia." Instrument type: Pibcorn (Reed-Blown Pipe) Medium: Bamboo, with animal horn bell.; 17.2 cm. (pipe), 8.8 cm (bell). Key Holes System: 1/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condit More

Instrument type: Piccolo in D-flat Medium: Rosewood(?), nickel silver keys and ferrules.; 29.2 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, post and rod, modern key cup. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Baxter-Northup Co., More

Bound with black lacquered string between front holes 1 and 2. Instrument type: Shakuhachi (Notched Flute) Medium: Bamboo, lacquered red inside, black horn uta-guchi, bound with black lacquered string.; 54.5 c More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, silver plate keys and ferrules, metal-lined head and sockets.; 65.3 cm. Key Holes System: Old system, cylindrical. Standard 8-keyed model to low C, plus all principal More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained brown, ivory cap and ferrules, silver keys.; 60.2 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: (unicorn head) / H · WREDE / 15 / ST More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, silver key, ivory and bone ferrules.; 61 cm. (with joint no. 2); 22.8 cm., 20.5 cm., 19.6 cm. (now. 1, 3, 4). Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Ma More

Instrument type: Whistle Flute (Transverse) Medium: Unidentified hard wood, brass ferrule, glass beads and steel-plate.; 35.5. cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not kno More

In letter to DCM, 15 Feb. 1929, Mrs. Sloan refers to this instrument as a "Sicilian shepherd's flute." She says she obtained it in Taormina, Sicily, in the summer of 1928. In an undated draft letter from DCM in More

Instrument type: Pitch Slide Medium: Mahogany.; 16.2 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: C. Van Raalte Collection, Brownsea Castle Sale, 21 June 1927, Bournemouth, England, obtained by Harold Reeves, London More

According to DCM ledger, this instrument was gilded at some point or at least appeared to be gilded when received by DCM. Instrument type: Piccolo in C Medium: Brass, cocus and metal cork-setting mechanism and More

This differs from DCM 1095 in that the bell section beneath the 2 vent holes is elongated likely for the purpose of achieving longer and thus perhaps better sprung keys. Like DCM 1095, the keys are attached ver More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, lightly stained, ivory cap and ferrules, silver key.; 60.1 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flat flap. Mark Maximum: PARKER / LONDON Mark Additional: Mark on hea More

Instrument type: Flute in E-flat Medium: Boxwood, brass keys, ivory ferrules.; 49.6 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, square flat flaps. Pin in block. Mark Maximum: (crown between garlands) / D'ALMAINE & Cº / LATE More

No. 1722. Instrument type: Alto Recorder in F Medium: Pear, silver keys.; 48.25 cm. Key Holes System: 7/1 holes plus 2 keys, post and rod. German fingering. Mark Maximum: Johannes Adler (surrounded by a partia More

after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade, painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, etcher, 1610-1685 (artist notes) Unknown (artist nationality) Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685 (original artist) Verso: (along right ed More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, nickel silver keys and ferrules.; 59.7 cm. (without cap) Key Holes System: 6 keys, modern style key cups. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Head cracked through embou More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus(?), or rosewood(?), with metal-lined ivory head. Silver keys and ferrules. Neither attribution, cocus or rosewood, may be correct. See "Conventions and Definitions," no More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained dark brown, ivory end cap and ferrules, silver keys.; 59.75 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, square flat flaps, pin in block. Mark Maximum: T. Prowse. / Hanway More

Instrument type: Transverse Flute Medium: Bamboo, decorated with 5 bands of incised lines.; 32.2 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Cracked. Provenance: Curio shop, South Kensin More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Silver, gold embouchure plate.; 67.3 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, open G#, octave (Schleif) key. Mark Maximum: Th. Boehm & Mendler / in / München. Mark Additional: Ma More

Modern German make. Instrument type: Soprano Recorder in C Medium: Cocus, nickel silver ferrule.; 32.7 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. German fingering. Mark Maximum: R. L. & C°. Mark Additional: Mark on uppe More

after John Collet, landscapist and caricaturist, 1725-1780 (artist notes) British (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Collet, John, 1725-1780 (original artist) Recto: l. l.: (just beneath image) J. Coll More

Marked adjacent to the windway cut-off key lever are the words "stop key", apparently added by former owner. Also the right thumb key has crudely scratched "B" on the key flap. The stock has an unfinished key m More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, silver plate keys and ferrules.; 71.9 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, to low B with touchpiece for either finger plus alternate D# (which requires rotating foot j More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, silver keys, ferrules, guide saddles for C, long F keys. Metal-lined sockets.; 61.2 cm., 62.4 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, round flaps. Post and rod on crescent-shap More

DCM ledger: "Totonac Indian, from Panuco, Vera Cruz." Instrument type: Whistle (Duct Flute) Medium: Terracotta.; 4.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/1 hole. 2 holes for carrying cord. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: More

Primitive workmanship for G# conversion. Body evidently shortened. Tuning slide in head joint besides usual pin and socket. DCM ledger: "Keys of early (Boehm type), with cups screwed to shanks. Fingers with adj More

Instrument type: Clarinet in B-flat or A Medium: Boxwood, brass keys, ivory ferrules.; 49.7 cm. (as is). Key Holes System: 8 keys, square flaps, pin in block. Mark Maximum: CRAMER / LONDON / (unicorn head) Mar More

According to DCM ledger, he understood these to be Nose Flutes, to be played together in unison, one in each nostril, and he therefore suspected that only the upper 4 of 5 lateral holes would be covered. Howeve More

Instrument type: Whistle Medium: Pottery bird painted red.; 5.8 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: C. H. Schroeder, Pasadena, California, 21 March 1921. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of C More

DCM ledger: "Spain." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained purple.; 21.8 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Cracks, and large portion of tube missing. More

DCM ledger: "American Indian, Ute." Tube, with integral mouthpipe. One of the rawhide wrappings also secures the flue cover. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified hard wo More

DCM ledger: "Flute has never been used. Ivory head was intact when received. It 'exploded' one day, with audible noise, 4 cracks!" Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, ivory upper head joint, nickel More

The foot joint socket ferrule contains two key rod posts, and to prevent it moving out of position it is secured with a nickel silver arm soldered between the posts and then screwed to the body about 2 cm. down More

DCM ledger: "Exotic Vertical Flute - Arabia. 'Gosbah.'" Instrument type: Nay (End-Blown Flute) Medium: Cane.; DCM 699: 67.4 cm.; 700a-c: 61.9, 61.25, 52.65 cm.; 701a-c: 60.3, 59.1, 51.2 cm.; 702: 38.6 cm. Key H More

Instrument type: Piccolo in C Medium: Cocus, nickel silver key and ferrules.; 31.4 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, post and rod. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Pawn shop, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Nov. 1917. The D More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Silver-plate.; 71.4 cm. Key Holes System: All open standing keys, to low B, with three trill keys near head joint. Murray System prototype. Mark Maximum: PROTOTYPE 1 // W. T More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Nickel silver.; 68 cm. Key Holes System: 15 keys, simple system (9 keys plus key plates for the 6 principal rank toneholes). Mark Maximum: BARLASSINA / & / BILLORO / MILANO More

Instrument type: Hichiriki (Double Reed Pipe) Medium: Bamboo, stained brown, lacquered red inside. Decoratively bound with brown lacquered string.; 20.85 cm. Key Holes System: 2/7 holes. Elliptical fingerholes More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Stained boxwood, brass key.; 60.3 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flat flap. Mark Maximum: (flower design) / J. TIETJEN / LONDON (in scroll) Mark Additional: Mark on hea More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, brass key.; 60.3 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: FIRTH HALL & POND / FRANKLIN SQE / N-YORK Mark Additional: Mark on upper body More

Replica, crudely made, pitch unknown. DCM ledger: "Copy of Chalumeau after one possessed by Canon Galpin." Instrument type: Chalumeau Medium: Mahogany, turned, with ferrules.; 25.8 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 ho More

With 2 corps de rechange although it may have had more. The head joint is unique in that the socket is a separate threaded part, the tenon for it being on the main body part. The head joint cap, if original, is More

German (artist nationality) painter and woodcut designer (artist role) Recto: l. c.: (initials in border of tablecloth) H B ; l. l.: (in pencil) H B Wm ; l. c.: (arrow, pointing upward) ; verso: (in pencil) l. More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver head, silver-plated keys.; 73.5 cm. Key Holes System: Simple system flute, conical bore, similar to but slightly less complex than the early Schwed More

With 3 pewter rings, in case. Locks on both joints. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Clear glass, silver keys, ferrules, sockets. Faceted rock crystal "rose-cut" cap (same as DCM 378).; 60.85 cm., 62.55 cm. More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap with cork-setting mechanism, ivory ferrules, silver keys.; 63.05 cm., 62.3 cm., 61.4 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, square flaps, pin in block. Mark Maximu More

Instrument type: Flute in E-flat Medium: Boxwood, brass key.; 50.6 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: METZLER / LONDON / 3 Mark Additional: Mark on head, upper, lower, foot. More

Instrument type: Flute Swab Medium: Steel.; 61.1 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other win More

This instrument probably had 3 corps de rechange. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, silver keys, ivory ferrules and cork-setting mechanism, metal-lined head.; 66.65 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, pew More

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Clear glass, frosted inside with fluted exterior, mother-of-pearl cap, silver keys, ferrules.; 67.3 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, round flat flaps on flanges bolted to body More