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 Hautboy after Jacob Denner Pitch A = 415 hz. Stained boxwood. Three pure silver keys, fourth double tone hole. Fourth simple tone hole on request. The original instrument : Preserved in National Germanisches Museum Nürnberg, under the n° MIR 371. Three brass keys, fourth simple tone hole. Preserved in good state, this hautboy has the same conception than the hautboy n° MIR 370, on display just next to it. The bell, thinner and lighter, makes the difference with its « sister » instrument MIR 370. Jacob Denner was active in Nürnberg in the first third of the XVIIIth century, where he succeeded his father Johann Christoph. He made all sorts of woodwind instruments : flutes, recorders, hautboys, bassoons, and he improved the clarinet. |
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