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3/4, voice flute 6/5, and tenor flute 4/3. Two of his transverse flutes have an earlier style single centre joint and one with four joints is unusually decorated with silver piqué (possibly the work of Peter Simon, Bressan's brother-in-law, a silversmith). No examples of his oboes or bassoons are known to exist.
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Bressan's surviving instruments are of renowned quality and have inspired a number of reproduction instruments. Comparisons of the existing recorders have been made by
Bouterse, including notes on how to replicate them and the problems of re-scaling the copies so that they can be played at the modern
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had a collection of historical instruments amongst which are a number of original
Bressans, including the voice flute. The instruments are finely made usually in boxwood or fruitwood and decorated with ivory rings. Three surviving bass recorders, found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the
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Surviving instruments by
Bressan include 51 recorders and 3 transverse flutes. The recorders comprise one descant, 27 trebles, 13 voice flutes, 12 tenors and six bassets, or bass recorders. Except for the bassets, most are scaled in total external length in an exact ratio to the treble: 4th flute
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has six of his recorders, four of which form a matched set always kept together as a recorder consort or quartet consisting of a soprano in F4 of 20 inches, an alto in D4 of 24 inches, a tenor in C4 of 26¾ inches and a bass in F3 of 42½ inches. This quartet belonged to the
Cholmondeley family of
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in London. This part of London had a rich history and for many years had sheltered foreigners and especially French nationals. Bressan arrived in
England in 1688, had made a fortune by the time of his marriage in 1703. He and his wife Mary Margaret had ten children but only four survived to
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In 1691 Pierre was recorded as having played the hautboy (oboe) for
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in Oxford has a well known example of an alto recorder on which a number of modern copies have been based, as well as a bass recorder which can be heard playing together on a YouTube video. The recorder player
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