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Author: JamesE
Date: 2003-09-24 18:10
Attachment: SmBass.jpg (83k)
Thanks to those who looked at the previous post and didn't find a picture. I have tried to attach a much smaller version. If that doesn/t work, here is a link to a 285k jpeg pic.
http://www.ptialaska.net/~jalguire/ClarPic/bassoon.jpg
My original post:
This summer my wife and I visited the Old Sturbridge Village historic site in MA. In the display of military weapons, there was on case with period musical instruments.
There was one which looked very much like a clarinet, with the following placarding:
Bassoon, 8 keys, no rings. George Astor & Co., London, 1784-1826. With the additional note CA 1820.
The attached picture is the best I could get, but this is definitely a single reed instrument. On the other side of the mouthpiece, there is a single reed attached.
Thought it was interesting.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-09-24 19:34
Jim - Both pics [for me] are of a nice old boxwood clarinet, not a bass-horn/serpent as in Sachs, Baines, and now copied pages from Groves, which gives comprehensive, via bass-horn, serpent and [early] bassoon write-ups, with even more pics. I contacted Al Rice [author of Baroque Clarinet and another book on our antiques] . He may respond. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-09-24 21:09
I must second Don's observation, Jim. I have an acquaintance who has a moderately sized collection of early boxwood clarinets. The pictures you post look very much like most of them; single reed mouthpiece, simple key system.
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Author: Douglas
Date: 2003-09-24 21:10
The atribution by the museum is incorrect...it is a clarinet. If you can tactfully do so, let the people at the display know of the error so others won't have incorrect information from the card at the display in the future.
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