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Description: | Bassoon, maple, brass mounts. Eight brass keys, flat, round, oval or spatulate, mounted on saddles, including F sharp and E flat and two keys on wing. Wing keys probably not original. Length overall is 124.3 cm. Length of wing and butt is 92.1 cm. Crook damaged, narrow bore, does not match wing. Long joint appears to have been cut down. Bell has abrupt terminal flare. . Stamped on bell, butt and long joints: Parker London.
The bassoon was developed in France during the seventeenth century.
caption: General view of object no. 14.5.47/56. | 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 vegetable fibre brass leather maple copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12430 | Go to resource |
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