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Description: | Bassoon, maple stained dark brown. Almenraeder's first system. Sixteen brass keys on square saddles: on wing joint, C sharp for left thumb and two wing keys; on butt, B flat twin-padded G (hinged), F, A flat (two), F sharp; on long joint, E flat & C sharp for left fourth finger, D, C, B and B flat. Crook socket and upper two keys bushed in ivory, as are two holes in butt. Bell almost cylindrical. Crook possibly original. Overall length is 129.1 cm. Length of wing and butt is 89.6 cm. Lacking ivory bush from wing keyhole. Stamped: 'B.SCHOTT FILS/A MAYENCE', (Mainz, Germany) surmounted by the device of a wheel with seven spokes. The wing joint is numbered '1' below the stamp.
caption: General view of object no. 14.5.47/52. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bassoons cork 422.112 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds with conical bore vegetable fibre ivory brass leather iron maple copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12971 | Go to resource |
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