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The double mouthpiece, or, A fundamental duetto on the trumpet & oboe / Peter del. ; Williams sculpt.
etching, hand colored
image: 309 x 230 mm; plate mark: 352 x 255 mm; sheet: 263 x 378 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2437
Published:
[London] : Fores, 1816.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
A stout man stands in profile to the left, blowing a trumpet. From between his coat-tails projects an oboe. From both issues a phrase of music, one inscribed 'The Trumpet shall be heard on high. Dryden's Ode on St Cecilia's day.' The other: 'Now give the Hautboy's breath, Drydens Alexanders Feast.' Below the title: 'Among the numerous attempts to improve Musical Instruments the new Art of playing the Oboe invented by the celebrated Professor Schmidt of Lousa, is mentioned as one of the mos [sic] Scientific. It consists merely in reversing the Tube when blowing, by which simple method the Tone is not only produced with greater force; but the effect is more naturel and much Sweeter.: vide Morning Chronicle June 10th 1813.'
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