Serpent, D
Date1820-1830 ca.
Place MadeFrance, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
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.
DimensionsHeight: 830 mm
Internal diameter (instrument): ca. 26-110 mm
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.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1979
Object number02628
On View
Not on view
1810-1820 ca.
1810 ca.
