Alto recorder, F
Alternate name(s)
- Treble recorder
Maker
W. G. Troup
Date1800-1825 ca.
Place MadeScotland, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on head joint and body: W. G. TROUPMarkingsnone
DescriptionThree sections, foot joint missing. Boxwood with ivory ring. Thumbhole and six fingerholes on the main joint.
Little is known about W. G. Troup. A set of pastoral bagpipes in the Highland Folk Museum (Kingussie, Scotland) marked "W G Troup / Stonehaven / 1826" may suggest that Troup worked or, at the very least, lived along the northeast coast of Scotland in the early nineteenth century.
DimensionsOverall length: 376 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1948 from Alec Hodsdon, Lavenham, Suffolk, England.
Published ReferencesLangwill, Lyndesay. An index of musical wind-instrument makers, 6th ed. Sv., “Troup, W.G.” This entry mentions this same instrument, which was apparently the only example by this maker known to exist.
Power, Wendy. “Historic Recorders…An Update” The American Recorder Vol. XXXII Mp/ 1 March 1991, Pg.17
Credit LineArne B. Larson Estate, 1988
Object number04564
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