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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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2Tenoroon, in F. This beautiful instrument is of maplewood, bound with brass. There are fifteen brass keys giving the scale of the ordinary bassoon. It is stamped upon each joint "Savary, jeune, à Paris." Length 37 3/4 inches.
3Lent by Cyril Spottiswoode, Esq.
5165.
6Tenoroon, in F, French pitch. This instrument is almost identical with the former, and is stamped upon every joint "Savary, jeune, à Paris." This and the instrument previously described are believed to be the only tenoroons in existence made by this great maker; both specimens belonged formerly to Dr. W. H. Stone, F.R.S. The workmanship of both is very fine, and the tone curiously soft and mellow. There are but fourteen keys to this instrument. Length 38 1/2 inches.
7Lent by Cyril Spottiswoode, Esq.
9166.
10Bassoon. This specimen more nearly resembles the Boehm system in the arrangement of the keys. There are no open finger-holes, but there is an elaborate mechanism of keys and levers which closes 28 holes in all, bored at their correct acoustical intervals. Hence the intonation is absolutely correct, but the instrument lacks the peculiar quality characteristic of the bassoon. This specimen is constructed of two separate conical tubes of rosewood, the lower ends of which are connected by a U-shaped tube of German silver, fastened by a spring. The instrument is stamped with the maker's name, "A. Marzoli, à Paris."
11The application of the Boehm system to the bassoon was originally due to Triebert, but experiments in the same direction had been made by Cornelius Ward in this country. This particular specimen once belonged to the band of one of the battalions of the 60th Rifles, but the extreme difficulty of keeping so complicated a mechanism in order, and its necessarily high initial cost, would alone render such
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