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- Soo D’oude Songen Soo Pepen De Jongen (As the Old Sing, So the Young Twitter). Cornelis Danckerts, the elder (Dutch, ca. 1603–1656), after Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593–1678). Mid-seventeenth century. Etching and engraving.
Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID # fl0001] - The Flute-Playing Shepherd. Marble original by Antoine Coysevox (French, 1640–1720), cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, ca. 1850 (original 1709). Bronze. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0002] - Un tambourinaire (A pipe and tambourin player). Unknown, Basse, Provence, ca. 1929. Postcard. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (003.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0003] - Whistle. Unknown. Probably twentieth century. Staffordshire pottery. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
[Digital ID # 1305f1] - Tabor pipe (Galoubet). Long (French, active late-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century), ca. 1780. Bone. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
[Digital ID # 0787f1] - English flageolet. John Parker (British, active 1770–1815). Unknown. Boxwood, with ivory beak and finger studs with brass keys. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)
[Digital ID # 0991f1] - The Bird Fancyer’s Delight. Unknown. London: Richard Meares, 1717. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0007] - The Pleasant Companion: or New Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet [SIC]. Thomas Greeting (British, n.d.–1682). London: J. Playford, 1680. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00, 008.00.01)
[Digital ID # fl0008, fl0008p1] - [Pan] on Cover of The New Yorker, March 14, 1925. Rea Irvin. Color relief print. New York: H. Greeley & Co., 1925. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (009.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0009] - The Country Choristers. John Goldar (British, 1729–1795); after John Collet (British, 1725–1780). 1773. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0010] - Le Fluteur. Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (French, 1707–1783). 1746. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (011.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0011] - Musique des voisins (Music of [men] neighbors). Paul Gavarni [Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] (French, 1804–1866). Mid-nineteenth century. Lithograph. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0012] - Le Concert(The Concert). Louis-Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845). Nineteenth century. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0013] - Les Danseurs à la flûte et au tambourin (Dancers with flute and tambourine). Unknown, after Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635). Seventeenth century. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (014.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0014]
Chatter
- Cuckoo Whistle. Unknown, Bellagio, Italy, ca. 1899. Carved wood. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
[Digital ID # 1381f1] - Oboe in C. Hendrik Richters, (Dutch, 1683–1727). Amsterdam. Between 1716 and 1727. Ebony, with silver keys and carved ivory ferrules. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)
[Digital ID # 0158f1] - L'Ouie (Hearing). Georg Balthasar Probst (German, 1673–1748), ca. 1790. Hand-colored etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0017] - L’Assemblée au Concert (The Gathering at a Concert). François-Nicolas-Barthélemy Dequevauviller (French, 1745–ca. 1807); after Niklas Lafrensen, the younger (Swedish, 1737–1807). Late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century. Hand-colored etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0018] - The Enraged Musician. William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764), 1741. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0019] - Mary’s Chappel/Five at Night. Jane Ireland (British, active late eighteenth century), after William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764). 1799. Etching. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0020] - Natural Fools, from the Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian of Austria. Hans Burgkmair, the elder (German, 1473–ca. 1531). 1526. Woodcut. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (021.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0021]
Record
- Tenor Recorder in C. Bassano family (Venetian, active sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century), London. Between 1500 to 1650. Unidentified wood. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
[Digital ID # 1240f1] - Musica Instrumentalis. Martin Agricola (German, 1486–1556). Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00, 024.00.01)
[Digital ID # fl0024, fl0024p1] - Principes de la Flute Traversiere, ou Flute d'Allemagne. De la Flute A Bec, ou Flute Douce, et du Haut-Bois, Divisez part Traitez (Basics of the Flute, the Recorder, and the Oboe, in Three Parts). Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (French, 1674–1763). Paris: Christopher Ballard, 1707. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (025.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0025] - Le Fluteur. François Bernard Lépicié, père (French, 1698–1755), after Jean-Alexis Grimou (French, ca. 1680–1733). 1740. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0026] - The Recorder Lesson. Giovanni Cattini (Italian, 1715–ca. 1800); after Giambattista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754). Mid- to late-eighteenth century. Engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (027.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0027] - Untitled. Jean Ganière (French, d. 1666). Seventeenth century. Hand-colored engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0028] - Flötten, Hautbois, Flachinett, Fagot, und Clarinett (Flutes, Oboe, Flageolet, Bassoon, and Clarinet). Martin Engelbrecht (German, 1684–1756), ca. 1720. Hand-colored etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0029]
Warble
- Syntagmatis Musici Tomus Secundus De Organographia; Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia; Tomus Tertius (Second Volume of Musicology on Instrumentation; TheTheatre of the Instruments or Sketches; Third Volume). Michael Praetorius (German, ca. 1571–1621). Wolfenbüttel: Elias Holwein, 1619. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0031p1] - Whistle. Unknown, Lucerne, Switzerland. Twentieth century. Maple. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00)
[Digital ID # 0626af1] - Transverse (or side-blown) Flute in C. Peter Bressan (French, 1663–1731). London, 1688–1730. Boxwood, stained brown, ivory cap and ferrules. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (033.01.00)
[Digital ID # 1207f1] - Das Weisskunigs Erfahrung in Mummerei (Of the White King’s Introduction to Mummery). Hans Burgkmair, the elder (German, 1473–ca. 1531), ca. 1514–1516, printed in eighteenth century. Woodcut. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0036] - “The Triumph of David” from Encomium Musices (In Praise of Music). Unknown (Flemish, 1523–1605). Late-sixteenth to early-seventeenth century. Engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00)
[Digital ID # fl0039] - “Ste. Cécile” (Saint Cecilia). Jacques Bouillard (French, 1747–1806). Eighteenth century. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (035.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0035] - L’Aimable Accord (The Pleasant Harmony). Elisabeth Claire Tardieu, née Tournay (French, 1731–1773), after Jean François de Troy (French, 1679–1752). Eighteenth century. Etching and engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (040.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0040] - Drei Flötenspieler (Three Flute Players). Possibly Andries Pauli, or Pauwels, le vieux (the elder) (Flemish, 1600–1639). Seventeenth century. Drypoint. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (037.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0037] - Flute Player. Lucas Vorsterman I (Flemish, 1595–1675), ca. 1640. Engraving. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (038.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0038_01] - [An order for the appointment of a certain Pierre Piech, as player of the flutist and flageolettist of his chamber.]. King Louis XIV (French, 1638–1715). 1655. Holograph letter. Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (041.01.00)
[Digital ID # fl0041]
