Bassoon

Giosue Esposito

1881 · Maple, nickel-silver · Musical Instruments

A revolutionizing model of basson, with twenty-four nickel-silver keys, was developed by the bassoonist Luigi Caccavaio in Naples. Its novelty concerns all major aspects of the instrument: bore, length of the wooden sections, and the key system which incorporates elements of the Boehm system. The Caccavaio-Esposito model was too different from the mainstream bassoons to be adoptable by bassoonists.

Artist

Giosue Esposito

Date

1881

Medium

Maple, nickel-silver

Culture

Italian

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 2003