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Flute

Johann Friedrich Engelhard (about 1730–1801)
1750–1800
Object Place: Nuremberg, Germany

Medium/Technique Boxwood, ivory, silver
Dimensions Length 66.4 cm (26 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession Number1989.136
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical instrumentsAerophones

InscriptionsStamped on headjoint and upper and lower bodyjoints: [in scroll: I. F. ENGELHARD] / N; stamped on footjoint: [in scroll: I.F. ENGELHARD]; stamped near upper and lower ends of all adjoining joints: 3; key decoratively engraved with initials "?C"
ProvenanceBy 1970, accessioned as source unidentified to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 22, 1989)

Poco Adagio, from Sonata in A Major for Unaccompanied Flute, 1747
Composed by Carol Phillip Emanuel Bach
Performed by Peter H. Bloom