Bassoon, nominal pitch: C

Buffet Crampon

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Instrument

Bassoon/Bassoons/Wind/Musical Instrument ; Bassoon

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Buffet Crampon

Place Made

Paris ; Europe ; France ; Western Europe

Date Made

1924

Description

Technical description: Palisander with german silver ferrules, crook well lining, bell rim mount, keywork and crook. Standard French Buffet key system with extra F♯/G♯ trill key for R0. L0: C; B♭; harm 1; harm 2; alt crook key; E♭; D; C♯. L1: T; G trill; A♭₃. L2: T; F♯ trill. L3: T; E♭. L4: C♯; crook key. R0: T; alt F♮ (enabling F♯ to G♯ trill); F♯. R1: T. R2: T; C♯. R3: G; B♭, both with rollers. R4: F; A♭, both with rollers. Playing accessories: With 2 reed boxes with reeds. With brown leather round cross-section deip-in case, screwdriver and tim of vaseline. Usable pitch: A₄ = 435 - 439 Hz. Signature / Marks: Stamped on all joints with lyre / and in cartouche, "BUFFET / Crampon & Cie / A PARIS" / and monogram BC; also on butt "R782/6591". D key guard incorporates "BC" motif. Specific literature references: G.S. (1958) No. 25. Illustration references: Vol. 1 p.84.

Other Information

Specific usage history: Played by Lyndesay Langwill until his death in 1983.

Notes

W.R. Waterhouse, 1993, 1989.

Measurements

1328.

Provenance

Bought by L.G. Langwill from Stuart Arthur, an Edinburgh theatre musician, c 1932. ; Gift of Mrs J. Rasch, 1983.