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3D Object Fife (Fragment), DCM 0001

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Title

  • Fife (Fragment), DCM 0001

Names

  • Edward Hopkins, Jr

Created / Published

  • Troy, New York, ca. 1860.

Headings

  • -  Flute--Specimens

Genre

  • flutes

Notes

  • -  DCM ledger: "Army Fife...formerly had a lead mouthpiece fitted on; the blow-pipe has been cut away, leaving the lead ring around body. Also had a silver ferrule with inscription, now lost. This fife was used in a Fife and Drum Corps in the war of 1861 by ? and by my father C.W.D. Miller in the 'Squirrel Hunters.' This fife was in the 'Shaker' basket of babyhood playthings, the earliest of my remembrances. It was then whole. But is was 'banged around' on the floor baby-fashion, and was used, as I grew, as a general stick and plaything, and was broken in my childhood. It was broken before I really began to play music. The first tunes were learned on a later tin fife. Among my childhood playthings were also an old boxwood clarinet with flat brass keys, ivory rings, and a violin, which had belonged to my grandfather Miller. These disappeared in boy-hood days. With the fife, clarinet, and violin, from baby-hood on, I became familiar with three distinct types of instruments. I made trials upon all, and used them for boyhood 'circus parades', etc."
  • -  Instrument type: Fife (Fragment)
  • -  Materials: Cocus, nickel silver end ferrule, pewter mouthpiece (portion).
  • -  Fragment.
  • -  Mark Maximum: HOPKINS / TROY
  • -  Condition: Lower half cracked away and missing at 2nd fingerhole; remaining portion cracked in 5 places. For added mouthpiece condition, see DCM comment in Notes.
  • -  Location: G07. Shares box with 37.
  • -  Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Medium

  • 1 musical instrument ; 38.65 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML30.4a

Source Collection

  • Holding of: Dayton C. Miller flute collection, 1880-2000 (bulk 1905-1941) DCM 0001

Repository

  • c-Music ML30.4a Dayton C. Miller flute collection, DCM 0001 (G07)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023865333

Online Format

  • image

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Four full-size drawings of flutes DCM 0507, DCM 0615, DCM 0916, and DCM 1125 by Jean-François Beaudin, Québec, Canada. 2003. Please make written requests for permission for other uses to:

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The quotation regarding Dr. Miller and his gold flute comes from an article by Robert S. Shankland, "Dayton Clarence Miller: Physics Across Fifty Years." American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):273-283. LC call number: QC1.A47. It was reprinted here with permission from the American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):278. Copyright 1941, American Association of Physics Teachers. Should you wish to quote from this article, please contact:

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The image of the Faun playing an aulos by Rea Irvin, Miller no. 57/G, comes from the cover of The New Yorker magazine, 14 March 1925. It is reproduced here without The New Yorker masthead as required by Condé Nast Publications, New York. Permission to reproduce the Faun only as a thumbnail-size image, and without the masthead, is Courtesy of the Irvin Estate. No reproduction without permission. For reproduction permission, please contact:

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

"Dayton C. Miller, His Life, Work and Contributions as a Scientist and Organologist" is made available here with permission from the author, William J. Maynard. HTML version of this text

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

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