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Oboe
1700–50
Object Place: Possibly England
Medium/Technique
Ivory, silver
Dimensions
Length 58.7 cm (23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.1905
CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionIn C. Ivory Made in three parts: upper and lower bodyjoints, and bell. Six fingerholes, the third and fourth doubled. Three square keys (Young type ?) of silver-plated brass (c' and e-flat x 2), mounted on rings with SAT?. Two vent holes in bell. Bell opening slighly narrowed.
ProvenanceFrancis W. Galpin (1858-1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (1858-1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)