Transverse flute

This flute belonged to Major W. C. Windram, Director of Music of the Coldstream Guards, who was among the 121 killed in the Guards Chapel, at Wellington Barracks, on Sunday June 18th, 1942. The band was playing on the church service when a German V1 Flying bomb struck. It is a side-blown flute made of African blackwood in four sections (head, upper and middle joints, and foot), with an extra body …