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Bassoon. Stained pearwood with brass keys, ferrules, end cap and crook. Nine keys, mounted on long base saddles with flat, circular flaps. Key-plates of the closed keys soldered levers. String lapped tenons. Sling hook on butt joint ferrule. Bell stamped: BILTON/LONDON; Long joint and butt joint stamped: 1/BILTON/LONDON; An emblem of a unicorn's head appears beneath each inscription.

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  • Materials:cork, material, copper alloy, pearwood
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.112 (Single) oboes with conical bore
  • Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
  • Measurements:overall: 1230 x 75 x 75 mm