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Collection Abbreviation F-Paris
Accession E.2139
Maker Abbreviation Kynseker
Lowest Note f#
Size basset
Year Made 1630
Pitch 440
Pieces 2
Length 930
Keys 1
Material Body box
Material Mounts brass ferrules on windcap & fontanelle
Material Keys brass
Notes Head stamped HF/1630. Wave-profile head. Foot turned on eccentric lathe and carved in the form of tree roots with indentations, rows of concentric scallops, etc, Key with fontanelle. Sounding length 852 mm. Ex Collection Paul Cesbron.

Lowest note and performance pitch from Brown (2005b). Haynes (2002) gives this instrument a performance pitch of A=430 Hz.

For critical measurements & other details see Adrian Brown's Renaissance Recorders Database; Brown (2005b: 535).
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