BTNRP · MS100170

Oboe

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Description

Oboe made of boxwood, in three sections (top and middle body joints, and bell), with ivory ferrules and nickel-silver keywork. Fourteen saltspoon-cup keys mounted on posts with rods, affixed on oval metal plates. Metal rollers on low C and C-sharp keys. Conical bore. Nominal pitch: C. This instrument is part of the Albert C. Spencer collection.

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