Tenor Oboe

Robert Wijne, c. 1750

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
  • Object numberBK-NM-11430-84
  • Dimensionslength 832.6 mm, diameter 100 mm
  • Physical characteristicsbuxushout en messing

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Tenor oboe
    • Tenor Oboe

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-11430-84

  • Description

    Tenor hobo in drie delen, gemaakt van buxushout, met drie messing kleppen. De rechterklep is mogelijk een vervanging. Twee stemgaten in de beker. De binnendiameter is erg breed, vooral aan de bovenkant. Het derde en vierde gat zijn dubbel. Gemarkeerd op alle delen: [kroon] R: WYNE [in een rol] [adelaar met twee hoofden]. Een ster op de achterkant van elk onderdeel.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • mark, on the upper, middle and bell, stamped: ‘R:WYNE’ [a crown]/ R:WYNE [in a scroll]/ [double headed eagle]
    • mark, on the back of the each section, stamped: [a star]

Creation

  • Creation

    musical instrument maker: Robert Wijne, Nijmegen

  • Dating

    c. 1750

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    buxushout en messing

  • Dimensions

    • length 832.6 mm
    • diameter 100 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

    • 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
    • Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, ‘The Rijksmuseum’s Remarkable Collection of Oboes’, The Double Reed 49, 2021, no. 2, p. 92-127: 109-110, 127, fig. 15
    • 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
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 119
    • Rob van Acht, 'Niederländische Blasinstrumente, 1670-1820', Tibia: Magazin für freunde alter und neuer bläsermusik 15, nr. 3 (1990), p. 169-185: 183
    • 'Aanwinsten', Bulletin van de Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond 1, nr. 2 (1899-1900), p. 48-49: 48

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