Collection Items

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    Flute in C, DCM 0070 Views included in pictures of instrument: view of flute, extra head joint, and tenon cover; detail showing interior bores of two sections resting on tenon cover Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Silver. 3 sections (two head joints for high and low pitch), double-walled tube, conical bore, with cylindrical outer tube. LP head joint with engraved embouchure plate; both heads have silver tenon caps....
    • Contributor: Giuseppe Barlassina
    • Date: 1900

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    Flute in C, DCM 0072 Crack in head joint barrel covered with (possibly repair attempt) a nickel silver decorative sleeve containing 23 facets. Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Cocus, nickel silver keys, ferrules, and lined sockets and tenons. 4 sections, tuning slide in head. Key Holes System: 10 keys, to low C, including high D trill and F# vent key for RH little finger, post and rod with...
    • Contributor: Anonymous
    • Date: 18??
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    Fife in A-flat, DCM 0083 Instrument type: Fife in A-flat Materials: Nickel-plated brass tube and cap. 1 section, cylindrical. Heavy gauge metal, decoratively turned (machined) at 3 points. Soldered-on embouchure plate. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Pawn shop, Chicago, 29 Nov. 1917. Location: G07. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous
    • Date: 18??
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    Vertical Whistle Flute, DCM 0164 Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Materials: Clay, decorated with plum-colored paint or stain. Slight exterior bell profile. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Dr. Eckstein Case, from "Mission Inn," Riverside, California, Apr. 1921. Location: C01. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous, Likely South American or North American Indian
    • Date: 19??
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    Shinobue (Transverse Flute), DCM 0170 Instrument type: Shinobue (Transverse Flute) Materials: Bamboo, lacquered red inside. Decorated at ends and between fingerholes with 12 natural rattan windings over black painted ferrules. Key Holes System: 0/7 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Cracked full length. Provenance: [Store], Oakland, California, Apr. 1921. Location: D01. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous, Japanese
    • Date: 19??
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    Shinobue (Transverse Flute), DCM 0172 Instrument type: Shinobue (Transverse Flute) Materials: Bamboo, stained brown, red lacquer interior, decorated at ends with natural color rattan. Key Holes System: 0/7 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Cracked full length. Portions of wrapping missing. Provenance: Hakabun-Do (Japanese book store), Los Angeles, Apr. 1921. Location: D01. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous, Japanese
    • Date: 19??
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    Flute in A-flat, DCM 0253 Instrument type: Flute in A-flat Materials: Unidentified wood with black finish, nickel silver ferrules and keys, brass-lined head. 2 sections, tuning slide in head. Key Holes System: 6 keys, post and rod direct mount, modern style key cups. Mark Maximum: (crown?) / MAINO E ORSI / MILANO (inside oval) / DI / PROF. R. ORSI / MO (monogram) // 39178 Mark Additional: Mark on...
    • Contributor: Maino & Orsi
    • Date: 1880
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    Flute in C, DCM 0262 Embouchure barrel engraved with leaf pattern. Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Silver. 3 sections. Key Holes System: DCM ledger: "The 'System of Fingering' is non-descript, it is neither Radcliff nor Carte's 1851." The instrument is essentially a cylindrically-bored 8-keyed flute with the 6 principal rank toneholes covered by keys and offering, beyond the normal 8-keyed fingering possibilites, a third F fingering, viz., the...
    • Contributor: Rudall Rose Carte & Co
    • Date: 1854
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    Walking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0271 Both pommel and cap thread into their following sections. The upper threaded socket of main wooden body has a beaded brass ferrule and the cord holes are bushed with ivory, one being a replacement. Turned with oversized ferrules positioned every 4-5 cm, each one then hand carved to leave four raised, knot-like decorations (68 in all). See DCM 1231 and 1662. Instrument type: Walking...
    • Contributor: Anthony
    • Date: 1764
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    Flute in C, DCM 0348 DCM ledger: "This flute seems to have been rebuilt. The lined head joint with tuning slide, is all new excepting the ivory cap. It bears no name. All other pieces are marked. Middle joints nos. 1 and 2 (lower pitches) have no key. No. 3 has one silver key for B-flat. Lower middle joint has keys for G# and short F. The short foot...
    • Contributor: Johann Benjamin Eisenbrandt
    • Date: 1785
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    Shakuhachi (Notched Flute), DCM 0357 Instrument type: Shakuhachi (Notched Flute) Materials: Bamboo, lacquered red inside, horn uta guchi. 1 piece. Key Holes System: 1/4 holes. Kinko style. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Henry H. Honnami, of Aoki Taisei-Do (Japanese store, sometimes recorded in DCM ledger as Aoki), San Francisco, Dec. 1921. Location: D03. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous
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    Panpipes, DCM 0366 DCM ledger: "The following nineteen instruments, Nos. 366 to 374, constitute a 'Band' of Pan-Pipes, made and tuned to be together. The band proper consists of 21 instruments, there being duplicates of the largest basses (Nos. 373 and 374). This band was obtained on special order, by Prof. Meriggioli, in the Province of Brianza (about 30 miles north of Milan). ... The band consists...
    • Contributor: Anonymous
    • Date: 1923
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    Flute in C, DCM 0376 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Cocus, wood cap, nickel silver keys, ferrules, lined sockets and middle joint upper tenon. 3 sections. Key Holes System: DCM ledger: "Tulou model." 12 keys, including a very conveniently positioned F# vent for right little finger and a high D trill for right 2nd finger. Modern style key cups. Mark Maximum: "France" / (cock) // FERNAND / Chapelain...
    • Contributor: Fernand Chapelain & Cie
    • Date: 1890
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    Flute in C, DCM 0442 DCM ledger: "Voight says August Pohlmann New York". [Henry August Pollman?] Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Grenadilla, ivory upper head portion, nickel silver cap, keys, ferrules, end ferrule. 3 sections, tuning slide, no separate foot joint. Key Holes System: 13 keys, including left thumb G#, foot to B. Mark Maximum: POLLMANINI Mark Additional: Mark on head. Condition: Head joint, both sections, cracked. Provenance:...
    • Contributor: Pollmanini
    • Date: 18??
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    Flute in C, DCM 0452 According to DCM, originally open-holed; holes covered (DCM ledger states covered by Geo. Haynes), and then covers removed later ("restored", by Wm. S. Haynes, 10 May 1926). Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Silver. 3 sections. Key Holes System: Boehm system, with five open holes, closed G#. Foot to C with roller. Mark Maximum: L.L. / LOUIS LOT / PARIS / 2962 / BREVETÉ...
    • Contributor: Louis Lot
    • Date: 1880
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    Flute in C, DCM 0461 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Cocus, nickel silver keys and ferrules, metal-lined head. 4 sections, tuning slide in head. Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon, with pewter plugs for low C#, C over square plates. Mark Maximum: H · FENTUM / 6 SURREY ST / STRAND / LONDON Mark Additional: Mark on barrel, upper and lower body, foot. Condition: Head joint, both sections,...
    • Contributor: Henry Fentum
    • Date: 1840
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    Flute (Body Joint only), DCM 0471 This appears to represent the middle section of a 3-piece cylindrical Boehm system. DCM ledger: "This is the 'experimental flute with moveable holes', described by Boehm in all of his books, used for determining the exact location of toneholes by trial." (Versuchen nothwendigen Modelle.Versuchsfloetenrohr.) The device consists of 1: an inner brass pipe perforated with 11 holes of varying diameter; and 2: tightly fitting...
    • Contributor: [Attributed to Theobald Boehm]
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    Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute), DCM 0480 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 stained brown as above, and the lower fourth of the instrument painted black and containing 5 ventholes, 3 round and 2 shaped like a 4-pointed star. The flue plate...
    • Contributor: Red Fox, North American Indian (Qupaw)
    • Date: 1925
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    Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute), DCM 0534 DCM ledger: "Winnebago" Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Materials: Cedar, stained medium brown, and showing traces of yellow. All or some of mouthpipe/flue cover had been painted yellow. Tube of cedar branch, bored out. Separate carved round wood mouthpipe and flue cover carved in form of bird, possibly a swan. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus 1 vent hole near bottom. Mark...
    • Contributor: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago)
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    Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute), DCM 0542 DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." See DCM 539. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Materials: Pine, copper mouthpipe, lead flue plate. Tube gouged out of 2 halves, glued together, and further joined by lashing at the top, set into a groove. Decorated (wood burned) with designs including swastika, mammal; wood flue cover carved in form of bird. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum:...
    • Contributor: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux)
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    Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute), DCM 0551 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 flush after the metal solidified. The mouthpipe is a turned wooden separate element. Four decorative vent apertures at the lower end. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical...
    • Contributor: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago)
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    Flute in C, DCM 0568 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Boxwood (or maple?), brass key. 4 sections. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: MEACHAM / & POND / ALBANY Mark Additional: Mark on head, upper and lower body, foot. Condition: The present cap is broken so that only the plug portion remains. Lower body joint cracked at socket in 2 places, more...
    • Contributor: Meacham & Pond
    • Date: 1828
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    Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute), DCM 0577 DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Materials: Wood, stained brown, with burned-in swastika and arrow designs. Carved greystone flue cover decorated with colored feathers and straw. Leather. Brass. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 30 Mar. 1926. Location: Case_10. Returned 6/9/03 by Ray White and Margaret Brown from American Treasures...
    • Contributor: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux)
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    Flute in C, DCM 0586 Register slide in foot. DCM ledger: "Body and head may not be mates." Miller may be referring to the absence of finish on the body joints, or, more likely, because the head joint inner metal tube extends slightly into the socket, the upper body joint tenon does not fit all the way into that socket. DCM seems not to have noticed that the upper...
    • Contributor: Potter
    • Date: 1745
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    Transverse Flute, DCM 0633 Instrument type: Transverse Flute Materials: Unidentified wood, highly ornamented throughout. 1 section, slightly curved. See Condition. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Extremely warped unless having been made as such. Three cracks at lower end. Provenance: André Rossignol, Paris, 28 July 1926. Location: G08. Shares box with 603. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous