DCM 1448: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute, Triple Pipe

Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute, Triple Pipe
Medium: Unidentified hard wood with low relief carving, geometric forms, and intersecting lines and dots, stained green.; 30.2 cm.
Key Holes System: Right pipe: 0/4 holes; center: 0/3 holes; left: 0 holes.
Mark Maximum: Stamped: Yugoslavia
Provenance: Source not known.

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.