DCM 0560: Anonymous Suling (Vertical Whistle Flute)

Instrument type: Suling (Vertical Whistle Flute)
Medium: Bamboo, with burned in fingerholes and burned decoration.; 58.9 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/6 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Condition: 4 cracks on lower end of pipe.
Provenance: Gift of Miss Eunice Wead, Ann Arbor, Michigan, from the estate of her father, Charles K. Wead, 4 Jan.1926.

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.