Alto recorder

Alto recorder

BK-NM-11430-97

Altblokfluit, gemerkt v. Aardenberg.

stamp, on the upper, mean and foot joint, stamped: ‘V AARDENBERG’ [a jumping deer]/ AARDENBERG [in a scroll with in the first ‘A’ a small ‘v‘ replaces the dash of that A]/ [one high model fleur-de-lis]

musical instrument maker: Abraham van Aardenberg, Amsterdam

c. 1700

esdoorn (geverfd) en messing (verzilverd)

• length 507.8 mm
• diameter 5 mm

Purchased with the support of the State of the Netherlands and the Vereeniging van Noord-Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis

purchase 1899

Public domain

• Rob van Acht, 'Niederländische Blasinstrumente, 1670-1820', Tibia: Magazin für freunde alter und neuer bläsermusik 15, nr. 3 (1990), p. 169-185: 182
• L.G. Langwill, 'Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung des Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ausgestellt im Gemeente Museum, Den Haag 9. Oktober - 24. November 1952', Glareana: Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente 2, nr. 2 (1953), p. 1-3: 2
• Jan Bouterse, 'Dutch recorders and transverse flutes of the 17th and 18th century', FoMRHI Quarterly 64 (Jul., 1991), Comm. 1052, p. 33-37: 33
• Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 117

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200409080