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Walking-stick recorder
circa 1820
Inv.-Nr. 4651
Recorder exhibited in Classic
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Photographer: Janos Stekovics 1st from the top
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Towards the end of the 18th century easily portable instruments in the shape of walking sticks became fashionable. A walking-stick flute that is played on a boat trip is the subject of a poem by Ludwig Uhland: "[he] screws off the tip and paraphernalia\ from his walking staff\ and joins the sounds of the flute\ with the din of the horn" ["Von seinem Wanderstabe\ schraubt jener Stift und Habe\ und mischt mit Flötentönen\ sich in des Hornes Dröhnen"]. Indeed, as is described in the poem, all one has to do is screw off the walking-stick's knob or handle and its tip, and in just a few seconds one has a ready-to-play instrument. In the case of a walking-stick violin, the bow is stowed in the inside of the walking-stick. Musically-inclined hikers could thus play in practically any outdoor setting, and, in true Romantic fashion, could harmonize with the singing of birds and the forest's rustlings.
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