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Musical Instruments - DCM 1379: Anonymous Transverse --?

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Instrument type: Transverse --?
Medium: Bamboo, unusually straight, with glossy bark, elegantly decorated with black ink-filled carving. Balsam(?) cork plug.; 41.3 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/6 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: Mrs. John G. Spenzer, Cleveland, Ohio, 8 June 1939.

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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batavia
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Library of Congress
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