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Serpent, D
Date: 1820-1830 ca.
Place Made:France, Europe
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionBody of wood, hollowed out from two halves with gussets at bell end, covered with leather, painted black.
Brass receiver ferrule with four double-grooved lines.
Six large front fingerholes, no keys.
Bocal fixed with brass wing screw.
The slightly flaring bell with gussets, the large fingerholes, and the wing screw at the bocal indicate a nineteenth-century date. The instrument appears to be a Baudouin imitation. It represents a typical church serpent (serpent d'eglise) of the type that was in use in France throughout the nineteenth century.
Brass receiver ferrule with four double-grooved lines.
Six large front fingerholes, no keys.
Bocal fixed with brass wing screw.
The slightly flaring bell with gussets, the large fingerholes, and the wing screw at the bocal indicate a nineteenth-century date. The instrument appears to be a Baudouin imitation. It represents a typical church serpent (serpent d'eglise) of the type that was in use in France throughout the nineteenth century.
DimensionsHeight: 830 mm
Internal diameter (instrument): ca. 26-110 mm
Internal diameter (instrument): ca. 26-110 mm
Terms
Credit Line: Board of Trustees, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesStewart, Gary M. "Keyed Brass Instruments in the Arne B. Larson Collection," Shrine to Music Museum Catalog Vol. I (Vermillion, SD: Shrine to Music Museum, 1980), p. 2.
Object number: 02628