DCM 1227: Firth Hall & Pond Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Boxwood, brass key.; 60.3 cm.
Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block.
Mark Maximum: FIRTH HALL & POND / FRANKLIN SQE / N-YORK
Mark Additional: Mark on upper body. Mark on head, lower, foot: FIRTH HALL & POND / N-YORK.
Condition: When received by DCM, this instrument was in "perfect condition." However, the foot joint has a highly unusual cracking pattern, both with-grain and cross-grain, around the E-flat tonehole, apparently all occuring post-1934, when DCM acquired the instrument. Lower body joint slighly warped.
Provenance: W. C. Fisher, Shelby, Ohio, 22 Sept. 1934.

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.