DCM 0565: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." The tube terminates at the lower end with a carved fish or bird's face painted yellow with red inside the mouth, and brass furniture tacks for eyes. Above that is a recessed area pai... More
DCM 0544: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Pine, stained brown. Brass mouthpipe. Lead flue plate. Flue cover painted grey and white, and wearing a... More
DCM 0539: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
Letter from N. E. Carter, from whom he purchased DCM 539-546, states; "I was lucky to buy a wonderful collection of Sioux Indian flutes...purchased from a man who was a banker near the Sioux Reservation...[wher... More
DCM 0764: Anonymous, Japanese Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Japanese. Toy Whistle Flute." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained brown on outside, red on inside.; 28.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provena... More
DCM 0546: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. The instrument is further decorated with arrow and geometric carving. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Redwood, leather thong, lead flue... More
DCM 1199: Rushworth & Dreaper Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "...designed for school-children for their 'handicraft' activities...made by H. Courtenay Buckley." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo.; 49.7 cm. Key Holes System: 1/6 holes. Ma... More
DCM 1559: Maker not identified Vertical Whistle Flute in C
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute in C Medium: Chrome plate over steel.; 29.45 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: L (superimposed on hammer and anvil with bowl-shaped line pattern below) / GE... More
DCM 0542: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Pine, copper mouthpipe, lead flue plate.; 49 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. P... More
DCM 1211: Anonymous, South American Indian(?) Vertical Whistle Flute w...
DCM ledger; "Indian Whistle-Rattle / South America?" [and] "There is a picture of an Indian playing just such a flute in my collection of Art work, 'Indian Chief, South America.'" Instrument type: Vertical Whis... More
DCM 1442: Anonymous, Japanese Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo.; 29.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Additional: In pencil: HOWY Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of ... More
DCM 0534: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "Winnebago" Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Cedar, stained medium brown, and showing traces of yellow. All or some of mouthpipe/flue cover had been painted yellow.; ... More
DCM 0791: Anonymous, North American Indian (Mandan) Courting Flute (Ve...
DCM ledger: "Mandan." The brass mouthpipe appears to have been a shell casing. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified soft wood, entirely covered with a length of animal i... More
DCM 0548: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pueblo) Courting Flute (Ve...
DCM ledger: "Pueblo Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified soft wood, stained yellow, now darkened.; 38.8 cm. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark... More
DCM 0845: Anonymous, North American Indian (Potawatomi) Courting Flute...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Potawatomi." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Tube apparently made of a segment of gun barrel, quite old, having a hammer weld seam. Stained wood fl... More
DCM 0480: Red Fox, North American Indian (Qupaw) Courting Flute (Verti...
The instrument is finely finished on the exterior, the upper half being stained a rich brown, and the lower half having three color schemes consisting of a blond middle section area, with the fingerhole flat st... More
DCM 0643: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute in C
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute in C Medium: Steel body with unidentified metal (possibly pewter) mouthpiece, all painted black.; 35.5 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance... More
DCM 0753: Anonymous, North American Indian Courting Flute (Vertical Wh...
DCM ledger: "California, Sacramento County." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bone.; 18.8 cm. Key Holes System: 0/2 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkho... More
DCM 0897: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Winnebago." The seam on each side is sealed with a glued-on strip of linen. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Soft wood, stained clay red and decorat... More
DCM 0527: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
For its length, the 5 fingerholes are unusually high. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Soft wood, brass mouthpipe, thong.; 65.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance... More
DCM 0691a: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." Roughly rectangular tube in cross section. The portions containing bark form rounded corners and the flat sections are stained dark (puce). The front and back flattened areas contain the 6 ... More
DCM 0876: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux." Mouthpiece end is painted turquoise, and the large bird's head end is painted black or charcoal with 2 yellow dots for eyes, and decorative turquoise painted dots. Flue cover carved in the ... More
DCM 0102: Anonymous Suling (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Suling (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo.; 54.1 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Missing its bamboo duct ring. Provenance: James S. Gibson, Boston, 23 D... More
DCM 0577: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Wood, stained brown, with burned-in swastika and arrow designs. Carved greystone flue cover decorated with colored fe... More
DCM 0300: Anonymous, South American Indian Vertical Whistle Flute (Duc...
DCM ledger: "From the Amazon." Quoting from a letter from Harold Reeves, 29 Nov. 1922, DCM records further: "Sent to Dr. Southgate about 28 yrs ago (1894) by his son, at that time resident in Brazil." Instrumen... More
DCM 0456: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Sheesum wood, stained red, brass bottom ferrule.; 29.1 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Between fingerholes 3 and 4 there is a ... More
DCM 0880: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, painted black, bone mouthpiece and bottom ferrule, white and green design.; 38.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus 2 tassel holes plus 2 vent holes. M... More
DCM 1328: Lora Rose Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, clear varnish, with cork block.; 23.85 cm. Key Holes System: 1/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Cracked through toneholes. Provenance: Lora Ros... More
DCM 0690e: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
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. Provenance: Carleton Sprague Smith, New York, 18 Dec. ... More
DCM 0016: Anonymous, Chinese T'ai P'ing Hsiao (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: T'ai P'ing Hsiao (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo stained brown, bone ferrules, blue tassel.; 52.15 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus membrane hole, 2 tassel holes, plus 2 vent holes... More
DCM 1215: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Vertical Whistle Fl...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Sioux." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bone, decorated with thongs, thimble, and small bells.; 13.8 cm. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condit... More
DCM 0214: Anonymous, Chinese T'ai P'ing Xiao (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: T'ai P'ing Xiao (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo, stained and lacquered brown, white Chinese characters, bone ferrules at each end.; 43.2 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus membrane h... More
DCM 0535: Anonymous, North American Indian (Chippewa) Courting Flute (...
DCM ledger: "Chippewa Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Tube of nickel-plated brass pipe, possibly plumbing stock, lead flue plate, wooden flue cover, tied with braided w... More
DCM 1111: Anonymous, South American Indian (Guayaquil) Vertical Whistl...
DCM ledger: "Indian, Ecuador, Guayaquil." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute (Pingullo) Medium: Bamboo.; 27.1 cm. Key Holes System: 1/2 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Scott E. Forbush, Pasadena... More
DCM 1157: Anonymous, North American Indian Courting Flute (Vertical Wh...
DCM ledger: "American Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Iron pipe, a portion of a gun barrel. Wrapped with leather thong.; 35.6 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Max... More
DCM 0790: Anonymous, North American Indian (Shoshone) Courting Flute (...
DCM ledger: "Shoshone." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo tube, lead flue plate, wood flue cover, leather thong.; 53.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No ma... More
DCM 0457: Anonymous Gawaq (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Gawaq (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo, decorated with incised lines.; 32 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Tube cracked. Provenance: J. S. Lovejoy, Cal... More
DCM 0752: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sac and Fox) Courting Flut...
DCM ledger: "Sac and Fox." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Body is from a steel pipe or tube, possibly a gun barrel, although it is slightly thin gauge metal for such purpose. W... More
DCM 1443: Anonymous, Japanese Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo.; 26.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 f... More
DCM 0549: Anonymous, North American Indian (Omaha) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Omaha Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified medium soft wood, stained green, bone mouthpiece, brass flue plate, wood flue cover, leather thong.; 6... More
DCM 0529: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Hard wood, painted or stained red, brown and yellow, brass mouthpipe, and with 5 feathers dyed various colors, attach... More
DCM 1454: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Unidentified wood.; 30.5 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of... More
DCM 0543: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Soft wood, likely pine, stained red inside and outside. Brass mouthpipe, possibly from a shell casing. ... More
DCM 1228: Anonymous, North American Indian Vertical Whistle Flute (Cou...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Yuman [Yuma], California." The cap mentioned by DCM may refer to a multi-layer brown paper ferrule affixed with ribbons that may have served as the original or temporary flue cover... More
DCM 0811: John Spear, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute...
The flue plate, if original, and the flue cover is the carved wood type sometimes referred to as the "saddle." DCM ledger: "Winnebago" [and] "Made by John Spear, about 97 years old. See No. 242, for new flute b... More
DCM 0690d: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained purple.; 22.5 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Cracks. Provenance: Carleton Sprague Smith,... More
DCM 0689b: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained reddish purple, see DCM 689a.; 21.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes plus 1 rectangular hole at the bottom, likely a vent hol... More
DCM 0690c: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained purple.; 21.4 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Carleton Sprague Smith, New York, 18 Dec. ... More
DCM 0564: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." DCM ledger records letter from N. E. Carter, dated 23 Jan. 1926: "Your remark that the Sioux flutes are so much alike...I explained in a previous letter...that the eight flutes...wer... More
DCM 0689a: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." The labium, fingerholes, and vent holes are drilled through the top where the bark has been stripped away. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained reddish purple, ex... More
DCM 1110: Anonymous, South American Indian (Guayaquil) Vertical Whistl...
DCM ledger: "Indian, Ecuador, Guayaquil." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute (Pingullo) Medium: Bamboo.; 29 cm. Key Holes System: 1/2 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Scott E. Forbush, Pasadena, ... More
DCM 1499: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, painted black, with pine block.; 37.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: MADE IN INDIA. No. 2 / Supreme / Quality Mark Additional: Printed on... More
DCM 0759: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Soft wood, pine or spruce. Animal eyes are brass upholstery tacks, mouth contains maroon feathers.; 85.7 cm. Key Holes Syst... More
DCM 0297: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, decorated with inscribed diamond and cross-hatch patterns.; 33 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Harold Reeves, London,... More
DCM 1462: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Dark charcoal, nearly black clay.; 26.6 cm. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes. Mark Maximum: Mexico Mark Additional: Mark inside bell. Provenance: Source not known. T... More
DCM 1456: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Poplar(?), lacquered black, carved to reveal the natural wood in a flower leaf design and incised band design.; 27.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximu... More
DCM 1452: Anonymous Pingullo (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Pingullo (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo.; 35.35 cm. Key Holes System: 1/2 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library o... More
DCM 0758: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux." Unusually long flue cover secured with 2 leather thongs, the upper of which also supports through the nostrils, an eagle or hawk beak, painted red, as well as a group of feathers dyed red. ... More
DCM 0751: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "Winnebago." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Redwood(?), lead flue plate, separate wood mouthpipe.; 61.6 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus 4 double vent holes. M... More
DCM 0550: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "Winnebago Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified hard wood, aluminum flue plate, wooden flue cover, upper end strengthened with steel ferrule.; 55.... More
DCM 1528: Anonymous, Chinese Xiao (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Xiao (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo, stained brown, with lacquer, and incised decoration in green and white floral and leaf pattern. Green tassel with gold bead.; 41.65 cm. Key Holes ... More
DCM 0839: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Winnebago." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Cedar(?), stained dark brown, nickel silver flue plate, wood flue cover.; 55.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0... More
DCM 0687: Anonymous, North American Indian (Arapaho) Courting Flute (V...
DCM ledger: "Arapahoe Indian." The final 8.5 centimeters of the tube is finished rectangularly. Two of the 4 feathers are attached through 2 adjacent vent holes. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistl... More
DCM 0886: Anonymous, North American Indian (Jicarilla Apache) Courting...
DCM ledger: "Jicarilla Apache, near Santa Fe." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Wood, lightly stained red. Wood flue cover, lead flue plate. Leather thongs.; 41.6 cm. Key Holes ... More
DCM 1620: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, painted black, with decorative silver- and brass-colored wire and wire mesh and bands over blue silver and gold metal foil with silver cord.; 29.95 cm. K... More
DCM 0545: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Pine. Brass tube mouthpipe with leather and red, white, and blue-colored straw. Lead flue plate.; 70.9 ... More
DCM 0847: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Winnebago." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Tube, including integral mouthpiece, of unidentified wood. Lead bands, carved walnut flue cover, lead f... More
DCM 0755: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pawnee) Vertical Whistle F...
DCM ledger: "Pawnee." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Unidentified bone (DCM ledger: "Turkey or eagle"), with loop of skin with brown fur attached, likely meant to be a neck strap.; 19.4 cm. Ke... More
DCM 0576: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sisseton Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Soft wood, spruce(?), brass mouthpipe, lead flue plate, red pipestone flue cover. Securing thong at flue cov... More
DCM 0889: Anonymous, South American Indian Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Aymaras, La Paz, Bolivia." Top is rudimentary fipple and block. Foot, natural septum, punctured. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo.; 47.2 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Elli... More
DCM 1668: Two's Company Music Vertical Whistle Flute
Accompanied by instructions and finger chart. Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Painted aluminum tube with plastic fipple mouthpiece.; 29.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: Pocket /... More
DCM 0777: Anonymous, North American Indian (Southern Arapahoe) Courtin...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Southern Arapahoe, Oklahoma." Tube decorated with blue paint at end, plus red paint inside, and over the 3 cord bindings. Flue cover painted blue with black beak and red cone or he... More
DCM 1527: Anonymous, Chinese Xiao (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Xiao (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo, stained reddish brown, with lacquer, and incised decoration in red, green and white flowers. Bone mouthpiece and bottom ferrule. Red tassel.; 43.2... More
DCM 0754: Anonymous, North American Indian Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "California, Sacramento County." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bone.; 20.5 cm. Key Holes System: 0/3 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 30... More
DCM 1607: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
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
DCM 0533: Anonymous, North American Indian Courting Flute (Vertical Wh...
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
DCM 1316: L'Instrument de Musique pour Tous Vertical Whistle Flute
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
DCM 0858: Anonymous, North American Indian (Chippewa) Courting Flute (...
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
DCM 0575: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
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
DCM 0842: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Vertical Whistl...
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 0832: Pietro Padalino Vertical Whistle Flute
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
DCM 0690b: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
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 0898: Anonymous, North American Indian (Ute) Courting Flute (Verti...
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 0540: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
See DCM 539. DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Light wood, pine or spruce, stained clay red. Lead flue plate. The instrument is decorated with an oran... More
DCM 1448: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute, Triple Pipe
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute, Triple Pipe Medium: Unidentified hard wood with low relief carving, geometric forms, and intersecting lines and dots, stained green.; 30.2 cm. Key Holes System: Right p... More
DCM 1621: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Cane, with picture of Krishna glued to instrument (formerly had gold metallic bands at each end of picture and at foot of instrument).; 25.85 cm. Key Holes Syste... More
DCM 0665: Anonymous Khlui (Vertical Whistle Flute)
See DCM 1365. Instrument type: Khlui (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo, stained with diamond and leaf pattern.; 44.2 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes plus membrane hole plus 4 vent holes. Mark Maximum: No... More
DCM 0561: Anonymous Suling (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Suling (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo, with burned in fingerholes and burned in decoration.; 37.6 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Slight crack betwe... More
DCM 1457: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Unidentified hard wood.; 40.3 cm. Key Holes System: 1/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Libra... More
DCM 0806: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Unidentified wood.; 30.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Edge chipped. Provenance: Henning Oppermann, Basel, 7 Aug. 1928. Form... More
DCM 1451: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo.; 26.6 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, ... More
DCM 0551: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...
DCM ledger: "Winnebago Indian." It appears that the tube was carved to receive the lead in a molten state, in that it also fills portions of the joints between the two tube halves. It was then apparently filed ... More
DCM 0241: Anonymous, North American Indian Courting Flute (Vertical Wh...
Decorated with indented dots, painted red. The end is carved with a geometric design. Lead flue plate and carved wooden cover in the form of unidentified animal. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistl... More
DCM 0848: Anonymous, North American Indian (Black Foot) Courting Flute...
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Black Foot." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Unidentified wood, leather thongs, lead flue plate. Flue cover of medium hard wood.; 61.3 cm. Key Hol... More
DCM 0238: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pilager) Courting Flute (V...
The flue cover is, for this plain instrument, unusually ornate, carved, possibly to resemble a rattlesnake's rattle, integral mouthpipe. DCM ledger: "Pilager Tribe of Minnesota." Instrument type: Courting Flute... More
DCM 0689c: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, stained reddish purple, see DCM 689a.; 21.55 cm. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes plus 1 rectangular hole at the bottom (likely a vent ho... More
DCM 0541: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Courting Flute (Ver...
DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. Tied into the upper retaining thong is a large bird feather to which is attached a piece of yellow ribbon further ornamented with a small swatch of red ribbon. Instrumen... More
DCM 1579: Anonymous Svirala (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Instrument type: Svirala (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Wood.; 30.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Spofford Whiting, New York, 5 Nov. 1954. The Dayton C. Miller collecti... More
DCM 0882: Calura Vertical Whistle Flute in B-flat
Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute in B-flat Medium: Steel with black and bronze powder enamel.; 34.95 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: MADE IN GERMANY / CALURA / B / (hammer and anvil, with... More
DCM 0205: Henry Johnson, North American Indian (Ute) Courting Flute (V...
The next-to-top lashing also secures the carved wood flue cover, which is also glued into position. The flue plate is tinned steel, glued and lashed into position just beneath the flue cover and indented into t... More
DCM 0691b: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute
DCM ledger: "Spain." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, with dark stain.; 25.8 cm. Key Holes System: 1/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Carleton Sprague Smith, New York, 18 Dec.... More