Thomas Weygandt 4-Keyed Flute
date: label: date made
content: 1840-1861
name: label: maker
content: Weygandt, Thomas Jefferson
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This flute was made by Thomas J. Weygandt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania around 1840 to 1861. It is a 4-keyed flute made of boxwood with ivory ferrules and nickel silver keys. This flute is stamped:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>T.J. Weygand<br>No 18 No 8th St<br>Phila.<br>[lyre]</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Thomas Jefferson Weygand (1800-1874) first learned the trade of a turner as a young man in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was fond of music and became a member of the “Artillerist Band,” organized in 1818 as part of the “Easton Artillerists.” Weygandt later moved to Philadelphia and made flutes and flageolets where he was active as a musical instrument maker from 1837 to 1870.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Flutes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0165.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0165.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flute
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: boxwood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 1 1/8 in; 60.96 cm x 2.8575 cm