Walking-Stick Flute in C
Walking-stick instruments of all varieties were popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Novelty walking sticks, which might include umbrellas, flasks, guns, musical instruments, or other items were fashionable accessories for gentlemen of all ages. Flutes and violins were the most popular instrument walking sticks.
Technical description: five boxwood sections with three horn rings, boxwood knob cap, brass and steel tip; six fingerholes, one square brass key mounted in ring; conical bore. (Susan Caust Farrell and Nancy Crutcher, 1974-79).
Technical description: five boxwood sections with three horn rings, boxwood knob cap, brass and steel tip; six fingerholes, one square brass key mounted in ring; conical bore. (Susan Caust Farrell and Nancy Crutcher, 1974-79).
Artwork Details
- Title: Walking-Stick Flute in C
- Date: 19th century
- Geography: Germany
- Culture: German
- Medium: Wood, horn, steel, brass
- Dimensions: L. 933 mm., Embouchure length (to center of vent hole) 840 mm.
- Classification: Aerophone-Blow Hole-side-blown flute (transverse)
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 89.4.929
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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German
1760–90
H. Grenser
before 1807
Georg Henrich Scherer
ca. 1750–57
Johann Wilhelm Haas
late 17th century
Andreas Naeplaesnigg
1790
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