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Lot 255
  • 255

François Antoine Sautermeister (d Lyon 1830) A seven-keyed bassoon Lyon, circa 1820

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Description

  • François Antoine Sautermeister
  • A seven-keyed bassoon
  • stamped Sautermeister à Lyon on the wing and boot joints
  • Lyon
brass mounts, the bell mount edged with beading, brass keys with circular covers, later brass crook

Literature

The crook was made for this bassoon by George Howarth & Sons. Recorded by Lyndesay G. Langwill in An Index of Musical Wind Instrument  Makers, p. 165.  However, for some reason, Langwill suggests the maker is Jacques François Simiot, who also worked in Lyon