Alto flute, Bernard Hemsing, c. 1730 - c. 1750

Alto flute, Bernard Hemsing, c. 1730 - c. 1750

silver (metal), l 790mm × d 40mm More details

Transverse flutes have existed in various forms since 3000 BC. Around 1720, Amsterdam was a centre for the manufacture of woodwind instruments, including flutes. The earliest, with one key and often made of boxwood, and ebony or ivory, were crafted individually. Alto flutes from that time are rare.

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Identification

Title(s)

Alto flute

Object type

Object number

BK-NM-11430-99

Inscriptions / marks

stamp: ‘B:HEMSING’

Description

Grote ebbenhouten dwarsfluit met ivoren randen, gemerkt: B. Hemsing.

Creation

Artist

musical instrument maker: Bernard Hemsing

Place

Dating

c. 1730 - c. 1750

Material and Technique

Material

Measurements

length 790 mm × diameter 40 mm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the State of the Netherlands and the Vereeniging van Noord-Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis

Acquisition

purchase 1899

Copyright

Documentation

Dutch woodwind instruments and their makers 1660-1760, Jan Bouterse, p. 151, 212, 367, 375, 379, 381, 383, 385, 394, afb. 8.15, Pn12-18
Niederländische Traversos und Klarinetten des 18. Jahrhunderts : Sammlung Gemeentemuseum Den Haag = Dutch traversos and clarinets of the 18th century, Rob J.M. van Acht, Jan Bouterse, Vincent van den Ende, p. 122-123, 130-135
The new Langwill index : a dictionary of musical wind-instrument makers and inventors, William Waterhouse, Lyndesay Graham Langwill, p. 171
Johan Coenradus Boers, 1812-1896 en zijn betekenis voor het Nederlandse muziekleven, Wim Thijsse, p. 223
Muziekinstrumenten uit het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, p. 20, cat.nr. 74
Rob van Acht, 'Dutch wind instruments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries', Geschichte, Bauweise und Spieltechnik der Querflöte, Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag (Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis), 2008, p. 53–69: 60, 65, afb. 7d
Jeremy Montagu, 'Instrument plans, books, postcards: Bate Collection, Oxford', FoMRHI Quarterly 68 (1992), p. 6-12: 10
Jan Bouterse, 'Dutch recorders and transverse flutes of the 17th and 18th century', FoMRHI Quarterly 64 (Jul., 1991), Comm. 1052, p. 33-37: 36
Rob van Acht, 'Niederländische Blasinstrumente, 1670-1820', Tibia: Magazin für freunde alter und neuer bläsermusik 15, nr. 3 (1990), p. 169-185: 183
Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 118
L.G. Langwill, 'Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung des Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ausgestellt im Gemeente Museum, Den Haag 9. Oktober - 24. November 1952', Glareana: Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente 2, nr. 2 (1953), p. 1-3: 2

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