Musical Instruments - DCM 0659: Joseph Ebner Flageolet

DCM ledger states that Ebner was a "dealer, not maker." This instrument has a wide ivory mouthpiece, not containing the usual round windway, but extremely flattened to appear like a (bassoon) double reed.
Instrument type: Flageolet
Medium: Cocus, ivory mouthpiece, silver keys and ferrules. Ivory plug for 1st hole.; 52.75 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/7 holes plus 8 keys.
Mark Maximum: I. EBNER / MÜNCHEN / *
Mark Additional: Mark below lip.
Condition: Ivory half-hole vent is partially filled.
Provenance: Sigmund Koch, Munich, 9 Sept. 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.