William S. Haynes Boehm System Flute
date: label: Date made
content: 1920
name: label: maker
content: Haynes, William S.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This flute was made by William S. Haynes in Boston, Massachusetts in 1920. It is a Boehm System flute, serial #5874, made of silver and accessioned with an original case. This flute is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>THE HAYNES FLUTE<br>MFD BY<br>WM. S. HAYNES CO.<br>BOSTON MASS<br>5874<br>PATENTED</p>
label: Description
content: <p>William S. Haynes (1864-1939) received United States Patent #1,119,954 on December 8, 1914 for “Improvements in musical wind instruments such as flutes, saxophones, piccolos and the like.”</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of C. Malcolm Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0511.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0511
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0511.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flute
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 67.945 cm x 3.81 cm