Oboe, C
Distributor
Button & Purday
Date1805-1808 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on all 3 sections: [on a scroll] BUTTON & PURDAY / [on a scroll] LONDONMarkingsnoneDescriptionBoxwood 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.
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.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01317
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1625-1675 ca.
