{Lempp}

2 brass keys with square flat flaps, type Young-A.

SATK (springs attached to the keys).

Raised key rings circular.

3rd hole doubled with finger cove.

Bell with 2 vent-holes and inner.

2 top joints no.1 and no.2.

Excellent condition - very small chip from back op MJ top. Onion of TJ no.1 little worn. Mahillon (R1978) Vol.II p.248 reports 3 top joints. One (?no.3) is missing. Young (1993) p.144 mentions only 2 top joints.

Reed (not original) for display only.

A = c430–5Hz with reed TL 66.5mm / staple 42mm – bottom ø 4.7mm / tip width 7.8mm. TJ no.2 is playing a little higher then TJ no.1.

Very uneven intonation with most available reeds. Has to be re-evaluated with a specially made reed.

Ex-Mahillon V. & J.

Maunder (1998) pp.183–5.

Steblin (2008).

Mahillon (R1978) Vol.II p.248.

Listed in Young (1993) p.144.

Adkins (2001).

Haynes type-D1 oboe.

Steblin (2008) pp.26–31 reports that Friedrich Lempp (c1723–1796) is mainly referred to as a musician in the city archives, and that this qualification was one of the reasons for the Lower Austrian Government to grant him permission to make and sell instruments in 1768, because “as a musician....he would be far more capable of making instruments with the correct tone and voicing than would be a joiner who is inexperienced in music.”

Maunder (1998) pp.183–5 reports that Friedrich Lempp advertises in the 1789 Wiener Zeitung with a boxwood oboe, available on request with 3 head-joints. There is no mention of any number of keys, so it is most probably referring to a 2-keyed oboe. In the same advertisement Lempp’s 23 year old son Martin (1766–1836) is announced as being an instrument maker and musician as well, working together with his father, probably until Friedrich Lempp’s death in 1796, since Martin is reported to reside at the same address.

Young (1996) pp.170–1 associates – with some doubt – a Bassethorn with an identical mark with Martin Lempp, son of Friedrich Lempp. In the same book pp.114–5 a 2-keyed oboe “Friedrich Lempp” shows slightly different turnery, another mark, and different keyhead types.

According to Waterhouse (1993) Martin Lempp was appointed as Hofinstrumentenmacher in 1800. From then onwards he would likely use the mark M.LEMPP K.K. / HOFINSTRUMENT / MACHER IN WIEN. Therefore this instrument should probably be dated as end of the 18th century, and could possibly be the product of a collaboration between father and son Lempp.