DCM 0512: Anonymous, German(?) Flute in A-flat

Instrument type: Flute in A-flat
Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver cap, keys, and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 43.65 cm.
Key Holes System: 8 keys to low C (E-flat), direct mount. Unusual and apparently incorrect tonehole spacing beneath E-flat key. The low C tonehole is positioned unusually distant beneath the C# tonehole, but only about 1.9 cm. above the end of the instrument. Low C will thus be extremely sharp.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: Pawn shop, Cleveland, Ohio, 10 Oct. 1925.

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.