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3D Object Treble (Alto) Recorder in F, DCM 0945

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Title

  • Treble (Alto) Recorder in F, DCM 0945

Names

  • Johann Benedikt Gahn

Created / Published

  • Nuremberg, 1698.

Headings

  • -  Flute--Specimens

Genre

  • flutes

Notes

  • -  Views included in pictures of instrument: front view of recorder; partially disassembled; fully disassembled
  • -  Highly carved and filled with black ink. Carved with floral design, fruit, leaves, and birds. This recorder is unusual in that the head joint is made of 2 sections, which are joined with machine threads and likewise the foot joint is comprised of 3 sections, the middle and lower 2 of which are also joined with machine threads. However, the foot joint upper section, which contains the little finger tonehole, may have originally contained the female threads joining it to the middle portion in the same way. However, if so, the threading may have been damaged and altered to its present state which is a tenon and socket (tenon on middle section) which is lapped with thread or twine.
  • -  Instrument type: Treble (Alto) Recorder in F
  • -  Materials: Ivory.
  • -  The traditional 3 sections, divided. See Notes.
  • -  Key Holes System: 1/7 holes.
  • -  Mark Maximum: I.B. [GA, unreadable, surmounted by crown? or other design] HN (in scroll) / IBG (decorative monogram)
  • -  Mark Additional: According to Seyfrit, v. 1: "The barely readable signature is at the center of an unengraved shield shape, the rest of the instrument is engraved."
  • -  Condition: None of the 3 (or 2) machine threaded devices is still workable, the male sections having both shrunk and broken off to some extent. The edge is chipped and damaged, but still somewhat playable. However, the head joint upper section was clearly split into 2 large portions which were rejoined temporarily by Robert Sheldon using the acrylic adhesive B72 (for exhibition purposes). Ivory chips missing at beak. This instrument was included in the Music Division exhibition, "In Praise of Music," in 1992 and was treated cosmetically at that time. The middle portion of the foot joint was curiously missing a slab of ivory not broken away but intentionally removed, creating a flat surface as the result of a saw cut, purpose unknown. A portion of ivory was added by Robert Sheldon using an alophatic adhesive and left slightly oversize to be further finished or worked as desired, or removed.
  • -  Provenance: Antique Art Galleries, London, 2 June 1930.
  • -  Location: G03.
  • -  Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Medium

  • 1 musical instrument ; 48.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML30.4a

Source Collection

  • Holding of: Dayton C. Miller flute collection, 1880-2000 (bulk 1905-1941) DCM 0945

Repository

  • c-Music ML30.4a Dayton C. Miller flute collection, DCM 0945 (G03)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023866244

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

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