The J’Élle Stainer Subcontrabass Saxophone: A Photo Essay
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Oboe in C | German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The quality, tone and forms of musical instruments are largely determined by the materials chosen for their construction. Elephant-tusk ivory, a particularly adaptable but exotic material, has long been employed in fashioning instrument of great value
National Music Museum
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Eppelsheim Soprillo Saxophone (2000s)
The soprillo saxophone is about as tiny as a saxophone can get. Higher than even the tiny sopranino, it takes considerable skill to get the rare soprillo saxophone to make a sound.
Theodore Berteling | Clarinet in E-flat | American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A slightly extended version of the traditional 13-key clarinet. The extras include an unusual connecting lever for the lowest key and a double a-flat key. Ivory with rosewood mouthpiece, silver keys and mounts
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Hornpipe Greece The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jeanneret workshop | Bassoon in C | Swiss | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A special Swiss version of the bassoon, featuring a metal d'amore bell and only one key (F) in addition to three sound holes in the bass joint. There are no D- and B-flat keys. This kind of bassoon was used in churches only to accompany psalm singing, which did not descend lower than F
Double flageolet. Nominal pitch: B? (three-finger tonic).
Technical description: Boxwood; 5 sections; silver keys and 2 cutters; ivory ferrules, mouthpiece and studs; left-hand pipe has 6 finger-holes (top one containing ebony plug), and keys for D, F, D[?]and low C?; right-hand pipe has 4 finger-holes, keys for C (thumb, with ebony plug in key-hole), B, F and D?, and vent-hole at foot; two-part wind-cap. Keymount type: knob. Keyhead type: 7 flat octagonal, 1 open-standing round flat for low C?.
Jacob Denner | Oboe in C | German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dakota straight Tenor Sax
NAMM Show 2009 Pictures - The Dakota Straight Tenor Sax - kinda freakie looking but really gets the girls attention :)
Johann Wolfgang Köningsperger | Tenor Oboe | German (Bavarian) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Galander | Half-Contra Bassoon | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marking: 1) (engraved on ferrule at top of butt) Innové/ par Galander/ Rue de Constantine 27/ a Paris./ I. C.2) (stamped on all sections except brass bell) (5-pointed star)/ (lyre)/ GALANDER/ A PARIS/ (5-pointed star)
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Fit for a King: An Ivory Clarinet by Charles Joseph Sax
Former Curatorial Fellow Heike Fricke introduces readers to a rare ivory clarinet currently featured in the exhibition Celebrating Sax: Instruments and Innovation.