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Walking-stick flute
Walking-stick flute. Stained wood. Two joints: head joint and three body joints combined as single unit. One wooden key, horn and ivory ferrules and brass sleeve on tip. Wooden key is flush with body and has leather pad. String lapped tenon. Body shaped to resemble bamboo. Both joints stamped: D. NOBLET/A PARIS; A flower motif appears above both inscriptions. A paper label adheres to the body joint but most of it has been removed. The remaining section has the number 26 written in D.J. Blaikley's hand.
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circa 1840 - Maker:
Noblet frères & Bannel [Corporation] - Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Paris (Timezone: Europe/Paris) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.121.12 Open side-blown flutes with fingerholes
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- Materials:string, leather, copper alloy, horn, ivory, stain, wood, steel
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.121.12 Open side-blown flutes with fingerholes
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 865 x 38 x 38 mm