Alto/Treble Recorder in f’ after Boekhout,
392/ 400/405, ebony with double or single holes, Baroque (English) fingering, Ivory mountings and boxwood on request
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Thomas Boekhout, Amsterdam (1666 – 1715),
mark: crown/ T.BOEKHOUT/ lion rampant
Boekhout was born in Kampen (Overijssel) NL. At the
end of the 17th c. he was the apprentice of Jan de Jager (1658 – 1692)
in Amsterdam whose nice he married. In 1713 he advertised in the Amsterdamse
Courant, that he “maekt en verkoopt alle soort van Fluyten, Hobois
... Bas Fluyten die al haar tonen geven als op een gemeene Fluyt, en een
niuw soort van Bassoons beyde door hem geinventeert“ (makes and sells
all kinds of recorders, oboes... bass recorders which give all the notes
as on an normal recorder, and a new sort of bassoon, both invented by him).
In 1731 the inventory of the Marienkirche at Danzig listed a recorder made
by him.
This marvellous alto recorder in ebony and in a = 400 Hz belongs to the
“Gemeente-Museum Den Haag”, NL.
Lit.: R. van Acht, V. van den Ende, H. Schimmel, „Niederländische Blockflöten des 18.Jahrhunderts“, Celle 1991 ISBN 3-87549-037-X
R. van Acht, in GSJ 41,83, in Tibia 3/90,169
G. Klemisch, „Zur Bauweise der Blockflöte um 1700 und Möglichkeiten des Nachbaus,“ in SAIM, Beiheft 12, Michaelstein/Blankenburg, 1992, S. 47
William Waterhouse, „The New Langwill Index“ London, 1993, ISBN 0-946113-04-1
Pillip T. Young , 4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments, London 1993