Alto fagotto

'Unsigned, but otherwise similar in all respects to the preceding {Alto Fagotto, Museum no. 299-1882)].' - Anthont Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 99. The 'preceding' was described by Baines as, "Of dark-stained wood, in four joints arranged as those of a bassoon, though the bell is short and has an internal flange at the mouth. The seven brass keys are mounted on brass saddles save for those on the long joint. The keys are: on the wing joint, which are mounted on blocks in the wood of the joint. The keys are: on the wing joint, one for the thumb and one for the little finger (C sharp); on the butt, F, A flat, and on the back F sharp; on the long joint, which has an ivory-bushed C hole, keys for D and (outside this) for E flat. The brass crook is bent in a right angle and adds 14 cm of tune-length when inserted."