421.221.12 Open flutes with internal duct, with fingerholes

Ivory french flageolet with four fingerholes and two thumbholes. With boxwood case (Horniman Museum number 15.10.48/118a). Index card reads: Ivory: keyless: in a single piece, with wooden plug: five turned ribs at and below the window. In turned case of light-coloured wood, round, and tapering slightly from the expanded, domed cap to a small flat end finial at the the foot. Lowest note D. Andy Lamb 22/5/1992: Patterns and laddering of radial cells of wood of the case indicate that it is rock maple or unfigured sycamore.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
M15.10.48/118
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 170 x 15 mm; bore at foot: 6 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; ivory; bone
CATEGORY
Musical Instruments
LOCATION
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