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1903.129.21

Pipe - wooden flageolet, made of wood and bound with string. It has two finger holes on the front and one on the back. [SM 08/02/2008]

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1903.129.21

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pipe - wooden flageolet, made of wood and bound with string. It has two finger holes on the front and one on the back. [SM 08/02/2008]
Cultural groups
English
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector George Augustus Rowell
PRM source George Augustus Rowell
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1886
Date collected
By 1886
Acquisition information
Donated: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Horse Hair Animal, Material Parchment Skin Animal, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Bound
Dimensions
Length: max 319 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1903.129.21
Research and responses

In February 2008 examined by Mike Heaney, a morris dancer and researcher on the subject, who noted that the pipe, although described as having two finger holes in the Accession book entry, actually has three, two fingers holes on the top and a thumb hole underneath. [ZM 25/02/2008]

Associated publications
Illustrated (with 1903.129.22) in black and white as Figure 2 on page 121 of '"Captain Kennedy's Mandolin", and Other English Musical Instruments at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum', by Alice Little, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 23 (2010), pp. 117-28. Also discussed at length on pages 121-122. (Copy in RDF: Researchers: Little, Alice.) [JC 20 12 2012]

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