Oboe. Nominal pitch: C.

Triébert

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Instrument

Oboe

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Triébert

Place Made

Paris ; Europe ; Western Europe ; France

Date Made

Circa 1830

Description

Technical description: Boxwood with silver keys and mounts and four ivory ferrules at reed well sockets and bell. The sockets are unlined. There is an onion-shaped baluster at the top of the instrument. All the keys are levers. The double lever for the low C key has a single lever for the C♯ key above it so that pressing the C♯ key opens the C♯ and closes the low C. The keys, especially on the upper section, are particularly small and delicate, the heads fitting accurately into the counter-sinking around the holes. The link of the low B key between the middle and bell sections is by a small fork which requires considerable care when assembling the instrument. 9 keys L1: T. L2: T. L3: TT. L4: G♯; C; low B. R0:, R1: TT; B♭. R2: T. R3: T; F. R4: low C; F♯; low C ass; E♭. Keymount type: The E♭ and low C keys are on raised rings. The C♯ key is on a metal bridge with the low C key running underneath. All other keys are on pillars mounted on metal plates let into the boxwood. Keyhead type: flat, round. Stamped on all three sections with barbican trademark with three merlons / "TRIEBERT / A PARIS". Usuable pitch: A = 415 Hz. Performance characteristics: ideally this instrument would use a small reed, but using a modern reed the instrument plays extremely well with a good clear response and attractively dark and open tone quality throughout the register. The cross fingerings for C and Bb and the half holes for F# and G' are all very good. Repair History: There is a crack from the B♭ hole running down to the plate supporting the key. This has been repaired with three pins, it does not appear to have been necessary to insert a bush in the B♭ hole. All the keys except the low C and E♭ are probably later additions. There is a fitted case which may be original.

Notes

S. Milton, 21.1.11.

Measurements

563.

Provenance

Formerly owned by the husband of Michele Zukovsky, Los Angeles, who never played it; bought by Michele Zukovsky in 1985 in Paris. ; Purchased with funds from the Thomson-Dunlop Bequest and the National Fund for Acquisitions (administered for the Government by the National Museums of Scotland), 2009.

Collection

MIMEd

Accession Number

5869

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