Martin Frères 4-Keyed Piccolo
date: label: Date made
content: 1878 - 1880
name: label: maker
content: Martin Freres
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This piccolo was made by Martin Frères around 1840 to 1875, and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a 4-keyed piccolo in E-flat made of cocoa wood with German silver ferrules. This piccolo is stamped:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>[bee]<br>MARTIN FES<br>A<br>PARIS<br>MF</p>
label: Description
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. This make and style of piccolo (#5396), as listed in an 1880 J. Howard Foote catalog, sold for $7.40.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055633
label: accession number
content: 11535
label: catalog number
content: 55633
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piccolo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cocoa wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: German silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 29.845 cm x 2.8575 cm