Flutes Collection

Dancing Women
A coloured chalk drawing of some joyful women, dancing and playing flutes, wearing minimal, patterned costumes. Date: circa 1917

Itinerant turner wearing a dress covered in
Itinerant lathe turner (tourneuse) wearing a dress covered in wooden toys and games. She holds a head for a wig 1, scythe 2, trumpet 3, flutes 4, lace bobbins 5, rolling pin 6, egg 8, goblet 9

Caroler Carriage Date: 1940

DUET FOR 2 FLUTES
Duet for two flutes Date: 1847

Bonzo the cartoon dog playing a flute. Cheerio Children! Bonzo Annual 1935. Date: 1935

Three frogs playing music on a German postcard
Three frogs playing music on a German greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Musical instruments of the Hebrews and Babylonians.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Two sprites playing a violin and a flute
A butterfly dances to the music played by two sprites playing a violin and a flute

Flageolets - the last example in present use of the flutes douces or a bec which were so popular in the 17th century. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary (20th January)

Ryuteki, Japanese transverse flutes and case. Date 1878 Nov

Ancient Instruments
Syrinx, flutes, lyre, tambourines, khelya and cithara, used by the ancient Greeks and no doubt by other ancient cultures

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