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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flageolet, DCM 0824 Bottom section terminates with long tapered brass ferrule and round-headed iron tack. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flageolet Materials: Maple(?), with acid stain "grained" décor, brass ferrule with iron tip. Thumbhole bushed with ivory. 2 sections. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes plus 4 apparently wooden keys, now missing. Three terminating vent holes at bottom of main section. Pin in block. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition:…- Contributor: Anonymous
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flageolet, DCM 1232 Views included in pictures of instrument: full view of walking stick flute; detail of head joint showing embouchure and ivory cap; detail of ivory cap as seen from above The exterior is meant to look like a series of 6 terraced outer diameter sections decreasing in size from top to bottom, not particularly sophisticated in finish. However, the ivory cord eyelets and pommel are…- Contributor: Anonymous
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute, DCM 0805 Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute Materials: DCM ledger: "Plum wood?", short brass ferrule with iron bottom tack at end, steel socket ferrules, brass D# key. Nickel silver ferrule (replacement). 3 sections, head joint, body, and tapered staff. Instrument turned to look like bamboo. Key Holes System: 1 key, round flat flap, plus 2 vent holes positioned fairly close to the D# key tonehole. Mark…- Contributor: Anonymous
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute, DCM 0982 Upper 3 sections have a knurled brass ferrule around the bottom socket. The third or lower is a replacement. Head joint, upper, lower and terminating staff portion with long tapered brass ferrule with iron stud. The 3rd section has no terminating hole(s) and the fourth (staff) section must be removed when playing the instrument. Present pommel is a crude replacment. Instrument type: Walking Stick…- Contributor: Anonymous
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3D ObjectCzakan (Walking Stick Flageolet), DCM 0684 Keys are recessed into body except for G# which has a raised wooden block glued and morticed into position and possibly original in that form. Instrument type: Czakan (Walking Stick Flageolet) Materials: Boxwood, brass keys, ivory ferrules, brass ferrule at tip. Animal horn hole bushings. 3 sections, head joint, body, and long staff joint terminating in tapered brass ferrule with steel bottom tack/pin. Key…- Contributor: Johann Baptist Merklein
- Date: 1799
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3D ObjectCzakan (Walking Stick Flageolet), DCM 0727 Head joint socket has an animal horn ferrule and its pommel is a cross bar (hammer head) handle also containing 2 blowholes and a recessed (carved) embouchure rest. Instrument type: Czakan (Walking Stick Flageolet) Materials: Boxwood, nickel silver keys, animal horn ferrule. Brass-lined blocks, outer brass ferrule. 3 sections, head joint, body, and tapered staff. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes plus 2 keys, round…- Contributor: Anonymous, Possibly Continental
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 1040 Views included in pictures of instrument: front view of walking stick flute; back view of walking stick flute with tassel Pommel threaded into head joint. Both the single key (D#) and the lateral terminating vent hole are decoratively elevated. The head and body sections have plain brass ferrules at both ends. The bottom staff section has a long tapered brass ferrule and iron tack…- Contributor: Anonymous
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0040 DCM ledger: "Boxwood Flute (once stained [varnished?], mostly removed)." Head joint has some unknown chemical which was spilled on it, the same color as the original stain or varnish. Unusual instrument in that walking stick woodwinds make some attempt to camouflage keywork. This instrument is obviously from a professional woodwind shop and displays the keywork as if it were a normal 5-keyed flute. Instrument…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0726 Views included in pictures of instrument: full view of walking stick flute; detail of tenon and screw mechanism within walking stick Head joint upper ferrule and core hole bushings of ivory, lower ferrule originally ivory, now replaced with bone(?) ferrule. Middle joint terminates at lower end with animal horn ferrule containing a threaded socket which screws onto a threaded tenon housed in a large…- Contributor: Staudinger
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0841 Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Maple(?), mottled by use of acid stain. Tapered brass ferrule at bottom, ivory pommel with silver disk. Cord holes bushed with unidentified material. 1 piece. Key Holes System: 4 keys, pin in block. No mark. Mark Additional: "G. Wetherbee / 1851" inscribed on plaque at top. Provenance: G. L. Tilden, Northboro, Massachusetts, 5 Apr. 1929. Location:…- Contributor: Anonymous, English or American
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0904 Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Cocus, nickel silver keys, ferrules, bone pommel. 3 sections, head, body, and bottom staff. Key Holes System: 6 keys, round flat flaps. The keys are recessed into the wood with round flat key flaps and saltspoon touch pieces. The instrument has one curiously low-positioned lateral vent hole and will likely play best by removing the staff…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Shakuhachi (Notched Flute), DCM 1133 The instrument has a 10.4 centimeter-long plastic pommel cap with coarse inner threads at the bottom which affix to a threaded plastic ferrule situated 7.7 centimeters from the top. Scanned without pommel. Instrument type: Walking Stick Shakuhachi (Notched Flute) Materials: Bamboo, cap and ferrule of unidentified plastic, horn uta-guchi. Tozan style. Key Holes System: 1/4 holes, closed at one end. Mark Maximum: Maker's mark.…- Contributor: Anonymous
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 1391 The upper end is trimmed back to shoulder to receive a ferrule. The present brass ferrule may be original, but now is much too large. The upper end of the instrument appears to have been shortened, purpose unknown. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Unidentified light hard wood, wooden pommel, brass key and ferrules, metal tip. 1 piece. Key Holes System: 1…- Contributor: Paul Walch
- Date: 1862
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0612 Each socket is reinforced with a recessed brass ferrule, not visible when the instrument is assembled. Two vent holes in the bottom staff portion (which contains the socket), and, for visual reasons, was likely meant to remain on the instrument when played. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Wood, possibly mahagony, pommel of the same wood, brass staff, ferrule. 4 pieces, including…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0908 Head joint cord holes are widely bushed with animal horn. While listed in Langwill under Lambert of Paris, the mark matches that of Lambert, ?Belgium, ?early 18c. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Boxwood, turned to appear as stylized bamboo, brass terminating ferrule and iron end pin. Wood pommel is inlaid with an animal horn disk and ring. 2 sections, head joint…- Contributor: Lambert
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0228 123 mm. long tapered brass ferrule with iron tack tip. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Boxwood, turned to appear as stylized bamboo, horn pommel, brass key, brass ferrule and iron tip. 3 sections, head joint, body, and staff, terminates with brass and iron tip. Key Holes System: 1 key, brass, round flat flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: (flower) / SCALVINI…- Contributor: Scalvini
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 1090 The upper section is a 17 centimeter long extended wooden pommel with a silver cap, silver bushed cord holes and (probably original) silver ferrule at bottom, now replaced with a nickel silver ferrule, likely from a clarinet or flute. The pommel unites the flute body proper with a 22 millimeter long tenon containing very closely fitting wooden threads. It terminates in dual lateral vent…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0390 The pommel is likely a recent replacement, apparently composite material. Second section terminates in lower vent hole. Third section cane staff tipped with tapered brass ferrule and steel pin. The instrument can be played without the third section. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Unidentified wood, possibly mahogany, brass key, upper ferrule of bone possibly original, brass ferrule, iron tip, cord holes…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 1218 Two large and 2 small terminating vent holes. Bottom is tipped with a long tapered brass ferrule and possibly also with an iron round headed tack, now missing. The cord holes above the cork were bushed with unknown material, possibly early natural plastic (one is missing). The pommel appears to be a replacement incorporating a threaded bottle cap likely from an ink or other…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking Stick Flute in C, DCM 0420 The pommel affixes to the head joint with machine threads. The instrument has an added left thumbhole awkwardly placed too near the B-flat key lever and upper C key tonehole. This appears to be an addition, possibly to raise the pitch of C#. Instrument type: Walking Stick Flute in C Materials: Grenadilla(?), nickel silver keys, ferrules, animal horn pommel with ivory or bone. 2…- Contributor: Anonymous
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectWalking 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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3D ObjectClarinet in A, DCM 1662 See DCM 271 and 1231. This and another Anthony clarinet in Minnesota appear to be the oldest surviving North American-made clarinets. Two other Anthony instruments (a concert flute and a walking stick) are preserved in the Miller Collection. Instrument type: Clarinet in A Materials: Boxwood, brass keys, ivory ferrules. Ebony mouthpiece. 4 sections plus barrel and mouthpiece. Key Holes System: 5 keys, square flaps,…- Contributor: Anthony
- Date: 18??
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3D ObjectFlute in C, DCM 1231 This flute, a Walking Stick Flute (DCM 271), and a Clarinet (DCM 1662, formerly in the R. E. Sheldon Collection of Musical Instruments), are three of only five Anthony instruments discovered to date. Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Ebony(?), silver cap with ebony cork-setting mechanism, silver keys, and decorative ferrules. 4 sections, with 3 corps de rechange. Key Holes System: 5 keys, G#…- Contributor: Anthony
- Date: 1764
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ArticleThe Art of Collecting When one approaches the amount of materials in the Miller collection, he cannot help but be amazed at the magnitude of it's holdings. The Library of Congress Checklist informs the reader that there are 1,426 instruments, all but a few are flutes or a relative of the flute, and 93 additional instruments which were either not numbered by Miller or were added after the…