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Bassoon (Boehm system)
Angelo Gaëtan Philippe Marzoli (died in 1865)
about 1865
Object Place: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Rosewood, nickel silver
Dimensions
Length 132.7 cm (52 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.1927
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CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionContrassbass in C. The lowest tone is BB-flat. Twenty-nine keys. Rosewood, stained dark brown. German silver keys and trimmings. Made in six parts: crook, two left-hand joints, a U-shaped connecting tube (German silver), two right-hand joints; the whole body of the instrument forming a U-shaped tube with unequal arms. The bore is conoidal throughout, with a slightly flaring bell. There is no wing joint or butt. No finger-holes. All holes, twenty-nine in number, are covered with cup-shaped keys operated by a very ingenious, but exceedingly complicated, mechanism based on that of the Boehm flute.
InscriptionsStamped on wingjoint and bell: BREVETE / [monogram] / A. MARZOLI A PARIS; Stamped on bell: 92
ProvenanceBy 1890, belonged to a 60th Rifle Battalion of the British Armed Forces [according to the Royal Military Exhibition, 1890]; by 1916, acquired by Francis W. Galpin (1858-1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Galpin to William Lindsey (1858-1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)