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{The Brussels Musical Instruments Museum Oboe Collection}
Stefaan Verdegem - Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
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IND ?> Inv. number
0424
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CN/NP ?> Common name / Nominal Pitch
Oboe in C
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TS ?> Type or system
2 keys
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MK ?> Maker
Bizey, Charles
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IN ?> Mark, inscriptions
(fleur-de-lis) / BIZEY – on all 3 parts.
- PL ?> Place of origin Paris
- DM ?> Date of making 1st half of the 18th century.
- MATERIALS Boxwood with ivory mounts, silver or silver plated keys.
- MEASUREMENTS
- Body Length 600mm
- TJ length (body + tenon) 222mm + 24mm
- MJ length (body +tenon) 216mm + 30mm
- B length 161mm
- Acoustic Length 340mm
- BORE
- Minimal bore 5.9 mm
- Reed well diameter c8.2mm
- Bore at end of TJ c10.6mm (very irregular)
- Bore at top of MJ 10.6mm
- Bore at end of MJ 16.3mm
- Bore at top of B 20.1mm
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TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
2 brass keys, square flat flaps type Young-A.
SATB (springs attached to the body).
Raised key rings circular.
3rd and 4th hole doubled with finger cove.
Bell with 2 vent-holes and inner rim.
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FL ?> Faults
repaired crack on bell.
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UP ?> Usable Pitch
A = c390Hz with different reed types e.g. TL 85mm / staple 58mm / tip width 9.4mm.
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PC ?> Performance Characteristics
Instrument plays well. Warm sound.
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PO ?> Previous Ownership
Ex-Tolbecque
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SR ?> Specific literature Reference
Mahillon (R1978) Vol.I p.436. “Cet instrument est en si b (au diapason actuel).”
Pierre (1893) p.99: “...Un autre hautbois....est à Bruxelles. Cet instrument est en Si b d’après le diapason actuel.”
Haynes (2001) p.88 as an example of a type-E hautboy, and p.466 listing rudimentary measurements.
Listed in Young (1993) p.23.
Mentioned in Waterhouse (1993) p.34.
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GL ?> General literature (about this type of instrument)
Haynes (2001) p.420 discusses Bizey as the possible inventor of the type-E hautboy.
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Comparable instruments
Oxford, The Bate Collection: Bizey oboe no.201.
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Remarks
Silver keys according to Mahillon (R1978) Vol.I p.436. The given length “6m60” is probably a misprint, meaning 0m60, like the length indication used for the other oboes.
Pierre (1893) possibly quotes from the first 'Mahillon' edition of 1880.
Bell possibly in plum-wood according to Wolfgang Kube.
{Bizey}
