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Description: | Serpent forveille, in two components: a long wooden body, covered with brown stained leather, doubling back a short distance at the foot in a U bend; and a brass continuation consisting of a compressed S-shaped tube and a swan-necked mouthpipe. Three keys. Finger holes for left hand on high metal bushes. Finger holes for right hand large and without bushes. All metal parts except rough brass bell garland covered with yellow paint. Mouthpiece a later substitution. Keys lack pads. One key lacks shank and spring. Mouthpipe dented. Stamped: Darche (address is illegible) Paris. Stamped deeply inside bell: an illegible name, possibly Toblot.
During the first half of the 19th century, makers devised more portable and easily playable forms of the serpent by configuring the instrument in an upright position.
caption: General view of object no. 14.5.47/291. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | 423.213 Labrosones with fingerholes with (wider) conical bore cork wood serpent forveilles paint textile copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12790 | Go to resource |
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