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Oboe
Oboe, lower joint and bell only. African blackwood (grenadilla) with nickel silver-plated keywork and ferrules. Keys have fish skin pads. Simple system fingering. Brille key. Cork lapped tenons.
- Date:
circa 1875 - Maker:
Metzler & Co [Corporation] - Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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London (Timezone: Europe/London) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:422.112-7 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds with conical bore with fingerhole stopping
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- Materials:cork, steel, fish skin, nickel silver-plating, copper alloy, cocuswood
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.112-7 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds with conical bore with fingerhole stopping
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 345 x 55 x 55 mm