Soprano Shawm (Duytse Schalmey)

Richard Haka, 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-NM-11430-82
  • Dimensionslength 619.3 mm, diameter 90 mm
  • Physical characteristicsbuxus, messing en zilver

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Soprano Shawm (Duytse Schalmey)
    • Soprano 'Duytse Schalmey'

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-11430-82

  • Description

    Soprano duytse schalmey van bruin buxushout met messing randen. De pirouetten en de bekerpinnen zijn verloren gegaan. Gemarkeerd tussen het derde en vierde gat: R. HAKA [in een rol met een lelie].

  • Inscriptions / marks

    mark, between holes 3 and 4, stamped: R.HAKA [in a scroll ]/ [fleur-de-lis]

Creation

  • Creation

    musical instrument maker: Richard Haka, Amsterdam

  • Dating

    c. 1680

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    buxus, messing en zilver

  • Dimensions

    • length 619.3 mm
    • diameter 90 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

    Public domain

Documentation

    • Jan Bouterse, 'The Deutsche Schalmeien of Richard Haka', Jounal of the American Musical Instrument Society 25 (1999), p. 61-94: 65-66, 71-72, 78-81, 84, 90, afb. 10
    • 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
    • Bruce Haynes, 'Lully and the Rise of the Oboe as Seen in Works of Art', Early Music 16, nr. 3 (Aug., 1988), p. 324-338: 333, afb. 22
    • Jan Bouterse, 'Making woodwind instruments: 10 Double reed instruments', Fomrhi Quarterly 139 (Dic., 2017), Comm. 2077
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instrument Makers from 1670 to 1820', The Galpin Society Journal 41 (Oct., 1988), p. 83-101: plate XV
    • 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: 65, afb. 2
    • Rob van Acht, 'Niederländische Blasinstrumente, 1670-1820', Tibia: Magazin für freunde alter und neuer bläsermusik 15, nr. 3 (1990), p. 169-185: 180, 183, afb. 4
    • 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
    • Giovanni Paolo di Stefano, 'Music Parade: a new display at the Rijksmuseum', CIMCIM Bulletin (Apr., 2020), p. 30-33: 32
    • 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, 86
    • 'Aanwinsten', Bulletin van de Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond 1, nr. 2 (1899-1900), p. 48-49: 48
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 117, plate 4
    • 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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