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 Hautboy after Jean-Baptiste Hannès Desjardins Pitch A = 392 Hz. Stained boxwood. Three silver keys. The original instrument : Preserved in Wachovia museum, Winston Salem, N.C., U.S.A. Jean-Baptiste Hannès Desjardins, member of the Grande Ecurie at the beginning of the XVIIIth century, belonged to a great family of musicians in the service of the King. He was a teacher, a player and an instrument maker in Paris. The copied instrument might date back to the years 1715-1720. |
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