Pastoral oboe. Nominal pitch: C.

Pupeschi

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Instrument

Oboe

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Pupeschi

Place Made

Europe ; Southern Europe ; Italy

Date Made

Circa 1890

Description

Technical description: Possibly of fruit wood, made in two sections (main body and a separate bell). Keys are german silver, reed well is lined with brass, bell socket is unlined. Although the bore is relatively wide at the reed well the taper is shallow and the bore at the bell is narrow with thick walls to the bell. This is similar to the other Boehm system instrument (73) although the overall bore is wider. This instrument uses some of the features of the Boehm flute which adapted to the clarinet but have failed to become established on the oboe, however the mechanisation on this instrument is neither as extensive nor as sophisticated as on (73). The fingering of this instrument is similar to that of a saxophone and may have been devised to enable a clarinettist to double instruments. Most notable among these features is the inversion of the brille mechanism enabling F♯ to be fingered with R2 and F♮ with R1 (as on modern flutes and clarinets). On this instrument the three rings are rigidly fixed together so that F♯ can be fingered with R2 or R3, or using the R3 key. The L0 tone-hole is a metal lined pin-hole and acts as a first octave key. There is a second, open standing, C♯ vent which closes with the low C key; The low B mechanism closes the low C vent but not this second C♯ vent making possible trills between low B and C♯ and low C and D♭. System: simplified Boehm system L0: T; 8(2). L1: T. L2: T. L3: T; Dtr. L4: G♯; low B; C♯. R0: sup. R1: R; B♭; C. R2: R. R3: R; F♯. R4: E♭; low C. Keyhead type: cup. Keymount type: pillars. There is an appreciable curve in the bore; making it difficult to clearly see some roughness in the bore at around the C hole. Current ownership: Lent by the heirs of T.K. Dibley.

Notes

S. Milton, 1993.

Measurements

505.

Provenance

on loan to the Collection.

Collection

MIMEd

Accession Number

2121

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