Flute, Large Transverse
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Apr 1988
label: Collection Date
content: N/A
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tae-Soon Ch'oe
notes: label: Notes
content: Aerophone. Made of bamboo tube banded with nylon strips. A blowing hole and six finger holes. An ornamental tin plate is affixed with leather strips between the blowiing hole and six finger holes. The tin plate is decorated with incised designs of various musical instruments and an inscription: p'arum (lit., eight sounds). P'arum means the eight basic materials used for the construction of trditional Korean musical instruments: 1) metal; 2)stone; 3)string; 4) bamboo; 5) gourd; 6) earth or clay; 7) leather; 8) wood. Used in orchestral ensembles.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356618
label: USNM Number
content: E423548-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute