DCM 0211: Anonymous, Japanese Minteki or Seiteki (Transverse Flute)

Instrument type: Minteki or Seiteki (Transverse Flute)
Medium: Bamboo, lacquered red inside, blue tassel with silver beads, bone ferrules, black bands between bone and bamboo at both ends.; 74.8 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus membrane hole plus 2 tassel holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Condition: Black band at foot cracked.
Provenance: Aoki (Japanese store, sometimes recorded in DCM ledger as Aoki Taisei-Do), San Francisco, 14 Dec. 1921.

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.