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Abbreviation
Parent
Surname
Parent
Given Name
Michiel
Dates
?-1710
Provenance
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Notes
From 1697 on, Michiel Parent (a performer as well as a maker of wind instruments) was a member of the ‘Collegium Musicum’ which performed in Amsterdam in the summer and in The Hague in the winter. Notes from
van Acht
.
Made double recorders of which he claimed to be the inventor. These had complex bores. A single example of his alto recorders survives, with a short foot and a remarkably narrow bore. He also made bassoons (Bouterse, 2001).
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