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DCM 1326: Anonymous, English or American Fife in B-flat (Fife in C)

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DCM 1326: Anonymous, English or American Fife in B-flat (Fife in C)

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Instrument type: Fife in B-flat (Fife in C)
Medium: Unidentified wood, dark stain with dark pigment varnish, brass end ferrules.; 36.9 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/6 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: R. S. Burington, Cleveland, Ohio, 16 Oct. 1937. DCM ledger: "This fife was given, in 1915, to Professor Burington by an old man, in Columbus, Ohio. This man himself played the fife in the Civil War. The owner was so attached to the fife that he broke down with tears on parting with it."

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.

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1700 - 1900
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