vessel flute

vessel flute is a flute without duct or family of musical instruments.

Also recorded as vessel flutes.

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Recorded examples

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count.

Wellcome Collection catalogues 5 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that above, red-figured Greek amphora; below, detail of the decoration showing a naked youth and a man playing the flute. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?). is dated 1760-1769 and held by Wellcome Collection. Institutional cataloguing adds that above, red-figured Greek wine bowl (column krater); below, detail of the decoration showing a procession of four men (priests?), one of them playing the flute. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?). is dated 1760-1769 and held by Wellcome Collection. Above, red-figured Greek water jar (hydria); centre, detail of decoration showing one man playing the flute and another following him during what seems to be a bacchanalia; below, two heads in profile: one male, one female (?). Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?). is dated 1760-1769 and held by Wellcome Collection.

M0003701: Dancing figures modelled on two pottery vessels is dated 27 November 1933 and held by Wellcome Collection.

Sources and evidence

This entry is compiled from 9 catalogued sources across 5 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Wikidata, Wellcome Collection, DataCite and Wikipedia. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

Connections

Each connection was recorded deliberately, with the basis for it kept on the internal record.

Broader subject

  • musical jugTerminology

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

  • ocarinaTerminology

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Cross flute, Oxford Music Online, 2001

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “vessel flute”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Dictionary of Flute Terms, The Flute, How It Works, 2024

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Flute Origin Myths and Flute-Playing Heroes, University of Illinois Press, 2017

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    How Does My Flute Work?, The Flute, How It Works, 2024

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Vessel flute, Oxford Music Online, 2001

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    “Vessel flute”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 5 works naming vessel flute.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q11853199: vessel flute

    authority record · Unverified · Wikidata

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Plates

Each plate is reproduced under the terms the holding register itself publishes, with its creator and licence named.

Blaasinstrument. Fluit heeft de vorm van een vogel op een schommel.. Bolvormige fluit van plastic, in de vorm van een vogel

Blaasinstrument. Fluit heeft de vorm van een vogel op een schommel.. Bolvormige fluit van plastic, in de vorm van een vogel

Tropenmuseum · Collectie Wereldmuseum (v/h Tropenmuseum), part of the National Museum of World Cultures · Wereldmuseum Amsterdam · CC BY-SA 3.0

The picture record
Blaasinstrument. Fluit heeft de vorm van een vogel op een schommel.. Bolvormige fluit van plastic, in de vorm van een vogel

Blaasinstrument. Fluit heeft de vorm van een vogel op een schommel.. Bolvormige fluit van plastic, in de vorm van een vogel

Tropenmuseum · Collectie Wereldmuseum (v/h Tropenmuseum), part of the National Museum of World Cultures · Wereldmuseum Amsterdam · CC BY-SA 3.0

The picture record

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