Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011

The Year

Musical Instruments: July 2009–June 2011

Guitar John C. Haynes and Company, 1890s, Rosewood, spruce, ebony, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, 2010.581

Guitar Giovanni Battista Fabricatore, 1803, Spruce, rosewood, boxwood, mother-of-pearl, bone, 2010.612

Folk violin and case C. W. Raborn, 1936, Cherry, 2010.613.1-2

Practice violin Charles F. Albert, about 1886, Maple, ebony, brass, 2010.614

Resonator guitar (style O) National String Instrument Corporation, 1935, Brass, nickel silver, wood, 2010.615

Panpipes (antara) 200 B.C.–A.D. 750, Cane, cloth, feathers, shell, 2010.616

Whistle 600–175 BC, Clay, pigment, 2010.617

End-blown flute A.D. 1000–1470, Bone, 2010.618

Transverse flute (phred-gling) 19th century, Cane, 2010.619

Flute Vincent Hypolite Godfroy, about 1856, Cocuswood, silver, 2010.620

Melodeon (lap organ) James Amireaux Bazin, about 1840, Rosewood, 2010.954

Melodeon Prescott Brothers, about 1860, Walnut, 2010.955

Melodeon Adam Stewart, 1838, Mahogany, maple, 2010.956

Mandolin Decorated by Icilio Consalvi, 1895–1900, Rosewood, spruce, ebony, mother-of-pearl, celluloid, nickel silver, 2011.357

Alto horn Fratelli A.M. Bottali, about 1900, Brass, nickel silver, 2011.40