Alto Shawm (Duytse Schalmey)

Richard Haka (mentioned on object), c. 1680

Music has always been a crucial element of public celebrations, such as military parades, coronations, royal weddings, and funerals, adding grandeur to the solemnity of the occasion. Musical ensembles entrusted with performing music at these events have existed in Europe since the Middle Ages. This display highlights various marching bands and their musical instruments dating from the 16th to the 19th century.

  • Artwork typewind instrument, musical instrument, oboe, shawm, shawm
  • Object numberBK-2010-18
  • Dimensionslength 854 mm, diameter 120 mm
  • Physical characteristicsbuxushout en messing

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Alto Shawm (Duytse Schalmey)
    • Alto 'Duytse Schalmey'
  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-2010-18

  • Description

    Alto duytse schalmey in twee delen, met twee messing kleppen en een messing rand om de rand van de beker. De beker is op meerdere plaatsen gebarsten. Twee losse stukjes hout worden door de messing rand op hun plaats gehouden

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • mark, on the top joint under hole 6 and just below the fontanelle hole, stamped: [single fleurs-de-lis]
    • mark, between the 3rd and 4th tone holes, and on the bell just below the small resonance hole, stamped: R.HAKA [in scroll]/ [fleur de-lis]

Creation

  • Creation

    musical instrument maker: Richard Haka (mentioned on object), Amsterdam

  • Dating

    c. 1680

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    buxushout en messing

  • Dimensions

    • length 854 mm
    • diameter 120 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

    • Jan Bouterse, 'The Deutsche Schalmeien of Richard Haka', Jounal of the American Musical Instrument Society 25 (1999), p. 61-94: 64-66, 68-69, 71-72, 78-83, 90, afb. 3, 6, 10
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 118, plate 3b
    • Giovanni Paolo di Stefano, 'Music Parade: a new display at the Rijksmuseum', CIMCIM Bulletin (Apr., 2020), p. 30-33: 32
    • Bruce Haynes, 'Sweeter than Hautbois: Towards a Conception of the Schalmey of the Baroque Period', Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 26 (2000), p. 57–82: 74 (voetnoot 36)
    • Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, ‘The Rijksmuseum’s Remarkable Collection of Oboes’, The Double Reed 49, 2021, no. 2, p. 92-127: 95-96, 122, fig. 2
    • 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
    • Jan Bouterse, 'The Woodwind Instruments of Richard Haka (1645/6-1705)', From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century, ed. by Jonathan Wainwright and Peter Holman, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, p. 63-72: 68
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Makers of Double Reed Instruments in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of the International Double Reed Society 24 (1996), p. 77-88: 83, 87
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instrument Makers from 1670 to 1820', The Galpin Society Jurnal 41 (1988), p. 83-101: plate XVII (b)

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