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Bass recorder
Johann Christoph Denner (German, 1655–1707)
about 1700
Object Place: Nuremberg, Germany
Medium/Technique
Boxwood, brass, ivory
Dimensions
Length without bocal 96.8 cm (38 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund and Musical Instruments Curator's Fund
Accession Number1987.550
CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionIn F. Boxwood body in three principal parts: head, body, foot; brass band (repair?) around head. Brass bocal with ivory mouthpiece. Six fingerholes and one thumbhole. One brass key (C).
InscriptionsStamped: [in scroll: I. C. DENNER] / D / I
ProvenanceBefore 1987, sold by source unidentified, Cremona, Italy, to Gerhard Stradner (then curator of musical instruments at the Kuntshistorisches Museum), Vienna, Austria; by 1987, sold by Stradner to Tony Bingham, London, England; 1987, sold by Bingham to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 25, 1987)