Soprano Recorder in B

Soprano Recorder in B

Thomas Coenraet Boekhout

Details

Medium
Ebony, ivory
Dimensions
13 1/8 × 1 5/16 × 1 5/16 in. (33.3 × 3.3 × 3.3 cm)
Origin
Dutch
Department
Musical Instruments
Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Art Genome Taxonomy

9 tags

Artistic Disciplines

  • Music Both · 99%

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the object as a soprano recorder, an aerophone whistle flute; the image visibly shows a fipple mouthpiece, windway opening, finger holes, and an elongated tubular body.

Visual Qualities

  • Symmetrical Visual · 93%

    The recorder is shown frontally as a largely axisymmetric object, with a straight central shaft, centered fittings, and regularly arranged holes.

  • Slender Visual · 99%

    The instrument has a pronounced length-to-width ratio and a narrow cylindrical body.

  • Single Object Visual · 99%

    The photograph isolates one recorder against a plain neutral background.

Time Periods

  • 18th Century Art Metadata · 96%

    The catalog dates the recorder to ca. 1700, which falls within the eighteenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • Dutch Art Metadata · 96%

    The catalog lists the place of origin as Dutch.

Materials

  • Wood Metadata · 99%

    The museum metadata specifies ebony, a type of wood, as the principal material of the dark body.

  • Ivory Metadata · 99%

    Ivory is explicitly listed in the museum metadata, corresponding to the pale mouthpiece, collars, joint fitting, and foot ring visible in the image.

Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects

  • Musical Instrument Both · 99%

    The museum classifies the object as an aerophone-whistle flute-recorder, and its form is visibly identifiable as a musical instrument.

Source & rights

Thomas Coenraet Boekhout. Soprano Recorder in B. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.