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Oboe, C
Distributor: Button & Purday
Date: 1805-1808 ca.
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on all 3 sections: [on a scroll] BUTTON & PURDAY / [on a scroll] LONDON
Markingsnone
DescriptionBoxwood with two brass keys. he profile of this transitional instrument has features that are typical of both Pre-Classical and Classical-era oboes. Two resonance holes in bell. Lowest note: C.
DimensionsLength: 570 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1948 from Alec Hodsdon, Lavenham, Suffolk, England.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson, A Catalog of the Double Reed Instruments in the Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments, MM thesis, University of South Dakota, 1968, No. 21.
Cecil Adkins, “Proportions and Architectural Motives in the Design of the Eighteenth-Century Oboe,” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 25 (1999), pp.118, 119-120.
Cecil Adkins, “Proportions and Architectural Motives in the Design of the Eighteenth-Century Oboe,” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 25 (1999), pp.118, 119-120.
Object number: 01317