Ryuteki (龍笛 "dragon flute")

Medium

Bamboo, various woods

Dimensions

15 3/4 × 7/8 in. (40 × 2.2 cm) Case: 17 1/8 × 1 1/8 × 1 1/8 in. (43.5 × 2.9 × 2.9 cm)

Classification

Aerophone-Blow Hole-side-blown flute (transverse)

Culture

Japanese

Department

Musical Instruments

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Accession Number

07.222.1

Rights

Public Domain

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