Serpent. Nominal pitch: 8-ft C.

Photo by Dominic Ibbotson © The University of Edinburgh

Instrument

Serpent

Instrument Family

Wind

Place Made

United Kingdom; England; Europe

Date Made

Circa 1825

Description

Technical description: Wood with leather binding; ivory finger-hole bushes; brass stays, bell mount, crook receiver mount and crook; 6 finger-holes, placed for right hand held under tube. Repair History: 3 keys formerly present removed and holes bound over.

Notes

Arnold Myers; R. Parks 8.6.91.

Measurements

length 733.

Provenance

Government allocation to the University, 1991.

Collection

C.H. Brackenbury Memorial Collection; MIMEd

Accession Number

0998