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Bassoon

Rosewood; nickel silver mounts; brass crook: 15 nickel silver keys mostly with deeply cupped covers mounted on pillars with or without base plates: the F and G sharp keys on the butt rollered; the hole on the butt for R1 with an insert, and below it a hole closed with red sealing wax; a second touch for the F key on the butt appears to have been removed; the associated crook not authentic.

  • Date:
    circa 1870
  • Maker:
    Gautrot-Marquet [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    Royal College of Music Museum
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  • Place of production:
    Paris
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  • Inscriptions:On bell, butt and bass joint: "[monogram GM in oval] / GAUTROT – MARQUET / PARIS / BREVETÉ S.G.D.G."
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  • Repository:Royal College of Music Museum
  • Measurements:Length: circa 1300mm