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Images from The Pressler
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Two Historic Bass Recorders
Left: NMM 3605.
Bass recorder in F by Johann
Christoph Denner,
Imperial City of Nürnberg,
ca. 1700. Ex coll.: de Bricqueville. Board of Trustees,
1985.
Right: NMM 3606. Bass (basset) recorder in G attributed to Arzazius or Hans Schnitzer, Munich or Imperial City of Nürnberg, ca. 1550. Stamped twice just below the window
with the same maker's
mark that is also found on five srayffaiff (schreyerpfeife) from the
Hofkappelle in Rožmberk, near Pracatiz, Bohemia, inventoried in 1599 and 1600, now in the Národní Muzeum in
Prague. The Rožmberk court band, organized in 1552 and
enlarged during the following half-century, owned 175 instruments, twelve
of which survive today in the Národní Muzeum in Prague. Ex
coll.: Canon Galpin. Arne B. and Jeanne F. Larson Endowment Fund,
1985.
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