Тип: Flute in C Средний: дерево, ивовая шапка и папоротник, ключи от брасса.

The head joint has a tuning slide consisting of the barrel with an integral wooden inner slide tube, which has to be lapped with thread similar to any of the tenons. The tuning slide socket in the upper portion may have had a now missing brass inner liner. This is essentially the construction of the Quantz model flute head joint, DCM 916, but without a threaded cork-setting mechanism.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap and ferrules, brass keys.; 59.4 cm.
Key Holes System: 4 keys, round flat flaps, pin in block.
Mark Maximum: FIRTH HALL & POND / LITCHFIELD / CONN
Mark Additional: Mark on upper. Mark on head, barrel, lower, foot: FIRTH HALL & POND / CONN
Condition: Missing brass liner, see Notes. The head joint inner tuning slide tube is cracked, both parallel and cross grain, and broken off its unit, but is amazingly intact. Head joint socket material under the ivory ferrule is unusually thin, it apparently having been reduced by hand. It is missing a chip of material as a result. Lower body joint has three cracks in the wood, and 2 in the ferrule. Foot joint cracked at socket.
Provenance: Whitlock's Book Store, New Haven, Connecticut, 16 Dec. 1940.

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.