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Description: | Bassoon, probably fruitwood, brass mounts. Four brass keys, flat, round or spatulate, mounted on saddles, including swallow-tail F key. Keys of long joint on flat platform. Baluster bell. Crook probably original but has been cut, with crook-hole. Sling eyelet soldered in. Overall length is 124.7 cm. Length of wing and butt is 91.5 cm. Heavy woodworm damage on wing and butt. Stamped on all four joints: Proser London 1777.
The bassoon was developed in France during the seventeenth century.
caption: General view of object no. 14.5.47/318. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bassoons 422.112 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds with conical bore wood vegetable fibre textile copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12725 | Go to resource |
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