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The Musick Cabinet Instrument Gallery
 
 You can click on the photos for enlargements.
 Please re-visit to look for recent additions of unusual instruments. 
 
 
Early nineteenth century piccolo.
Boxwood and bone mounts.
One brass key. a=440 Hz 
Enlargement and description pdf.
 
  
 

Double bass recorder

by Jonathan Swaine

F to d'

 
 
Serpent in C
by Christopher Monk 
  
 
   Portative organ
(organetto)
by Noel Mander
 
 
Baroque bassoon 
after Denner
by Barbara Stanley    
 
  
 
 Spinet
built from a John Storrs kit
54 notes C to f'''
8ft + buff
 
 
Three-holed pipes
& tabors
 
 
 
 
Basset pommer
 or extended
tenor shawm
by Moeck
 
 
Northumbrian
Smallpipes
By William Hedworth
 
 

 

Whittle & dub

(pipe & tabor)

as supplied by

EFDSS in 1970s

 

Flute by Potter, London

I key, boxwood & ivory.

a =approx 450 Hz

Circa 1790

  

 

Theremin

played by Mike Alexander.

This is a 20th century instrument

 beloved of film composers

 

 

 

 

Crumhorns

By Eric Moulder

 

Descant, alto in G, extended tenor,

Extended bass, tenor, alto in F.