Title(s)

Bass recorder

Object type

• musical instrument
• flute
• recorder
• bass recorder

Object number

BK-NM-10436

Inscriptions / marks

• mark, on the head joint, stamped: ‘I.C.DENNER’, I.C.DENNER [in scroll with rolled-up ends]/ D

Description

Basblokfluit met één klep en met koper gemonteerd.

Artist

• musical instrument maker: Johan Christoph Denner

Place

Leipzig

Dating

c. 1700

Material

• copper (metal)

Measurements

height 89 cm × diameter 8.5 cm

Acquisition

purchase 1896

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Bass recorder with one key (lower joint) (BK-NM-10436-1)
• Bass recorder with one key (upper and middle joints) (BK-NM-10436-2)

• 4900 historical woodwind instruments, Phillip T. Young, p. 59
• Muziekinstrumenten uit het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, A.W. Ligtvoet, p. 17, cat.nr. 53
• Robert Austin Warner, Friedrich von Huene, 'The Baroque Recorders in the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments', The Galpin Society Journal 23 (Aug., 1970), p. 69-81: 70