DCM 0967: Anonymous Csakan(y) (Flageolet)

Instrument type: Csakan(y) (Flageolet)
Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver key and ferrule.; 51.45 cm.
Key Holes System: 1/7 holes with one key (D#); original thumbhole appears to have been plugged (nickel silver) and then redrilled 9 millimeters higher and reduced in diameter with a nickel silver tube.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: Julius Heinrich Zimmermann, Leipzig, Germany, 19 Aug. 1930.

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.