DCM 0328: Franz Simon Schuechbaur Treble (Alto) Recorder in F

In the usual 3 joints, head, body, foot, except that the sections are joined with machine threads; 2 for head joint, 3 for foot joint, similar to DCM 945 (see detail photograph).

Instrument type: Treble (Alto) Recorder in F

Medium: Ivory.; 44.5 cm.

Key Holes System: 1/7 holes.

Mark Maximum: (flower) / S / SCHVECHBAVR

Mark Additional: Mark on all sections.

Condition: Minor shrinkage at each mechanical joint. Foot joint center section bead just below upper thread chipped and missing about 170 degrees in circumference. Lower thread same section chipped. Missing portions but still functional.

Provenance: Sumner Healey, New York, 25 Apr. 1923. Formerly in the Tolbecque collection. This probably refers to the collection of Auguste Tolbecque, 1830-1919, Niort, France. Tolbecque was a composer, stringed instrument maker, cellist, and collector of musical instruments. In 1879, the Belgian government purchased many instruments from the Tolbecque collection for the Brussels Conservatory. This instrument probably comes from a second collection of instruments which was dispersed in 1922 along with Tolbecque's library. Biographical information on Tolbecque per Elisabeth Bernard, “Auguste Tolbecque,” The New Grove Dictionary of Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 29 April 2003)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.

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