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1985.18.1

Whithorn oboe.

1985.18.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Whithorn oboe.
Cultural groups
English
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Thomas James Carter
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: Probably in 1895
Date collected
1895
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 1985
Materials and processes
Material Willow Bark Wood Plant, Material Plant Thorn, Process Twisted, Process Pegged
Dimensions
Length: max 252 mm, Diameter: max 55 mm bell
Object numbers
Accession number: 1985.18.1
Research and responses

For the donor's own account of 'whit horns', see 'A Primitive Musical Instrument', by Henry Balfour, in The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, new series, Vol. II (October 1896), pp. 221-4 (copy in RDF for 1903.130.22). [JC 23 6 2006]

Associated publications
Discussed, along with the other whit-horns in the PRM, on pages 118-120 of '"Captain Kennedy's Mandolin", and Other English Musical Instruments at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum', by Alice Little, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 23 (2010), pp. 117-28. (Copy in RDF: Researchers: Little, Alice.) [JC 20 12 2012]

Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Double Reed

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