Musical Instrument: Flute Type
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Maha Mongkut
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BELL AND TUBE ARE OF TURNED WOOD IN TWO PIECES, ONE FITTING INSIDE THE OTHER WITH A SILVER FERRULE FOR REENFORCEMENT. TUBE HAS SEVEN FINGER HOLES AND THUMB HOLE ON OPPOSITE SIDE. THE MOUTHPIECE WHICH APPARENTLY WAS NOT WITH THE ITEM WHEN DR. HAWLEY STUDIED IT, SHOULD BE OF PALM LEAF, WITH A DOUBLE REED, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT AN OBOE-TYPE INSTRUMENT. THERE ONCE WERE EXTRA REEDS. ACCORDING TO ORIGINAL LISTING THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PAIR OF THESE BUT MUSEUM CAT. GIVES NO SUCH INDICATION."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 128. Identified there as a Javanese-style oboe, Pi chawa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 266032
label: USNM Number
content: E77-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Oboe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36.5 cm
label: Width - Bell
content: 6.7 cm