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Nederlands: Muziekinstrumentenmuseum
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  • Trombone with seven bells, Adolphe Sax, Paris, end 19th century, inv.1288. Muziekinstrumentenmuseum [MIM Brussels].
    "​Collection: Wind instruments ",
    "​Period: end 19th century CE ",
    "​Materials: Brass ",
    "​Height: 84 cm ",
    "​With his invention of six independent valves in 1852, perfected in 1867, Adolphe Sax attempted to give the trombone a new verve. The instrument had barely changed since its origin in the fifteenth century, and makers of it regarded the slide as old-fashioned and awkward. With this new system, the fundamental note and its series of harmonics could be altered by depressing one of the six valves, rather than using the slide. The instrument was initially received with enthusiasm and a class was even established at the Paris Conservatory for the six-valve trombone. At one point it looked as though the instrument would indeed replace the old slide trombone. However, its complex construction and the new, complex fingering served rapidly to dim its success. ",
    "​The trombone pictured here has seven bells. It applies the principle of six independent valves, each of which connects to its own bell. The seventh and largest bell sounds when none of the valves is in use. The seven bells correspond to the seven possible positions of the earlier slide. "
  • Violino arpa, Thomas Zach, Vienna, 1873, inv.1359. Muziekinstrumentenmuseum [MIM Brussels].
    "​Collection: String instruments ",
    "​Materials: Ebony/Spruce/Maple/Metal ",
    "​Height: 61 cm ",
    "​ This curious violin with its elongated shape appears to have escaped from a Salvador Dali painting! It is illustrative of nineteenth-century inventiveness in the search for perfection in instrument-building. ",
    "​ Its designer, Thomas Zach, had as convoluted a life as the form of his instrument. He began as a miller’s assistant in Bohemia, later becoming an apprentice violin maker in Prague. Thereafter, he worked in Budapest for a few years and then spent an itinerant period in Hungary and Romania. In 1865, he met Prince Sturdza in Bucharest, who boasted of having come up with a concept for the ideal violin, one based on elliptical shapes. According to him, the sound volume of the instrument would be enhanced by increasing the capacity of the sound-box. Zach put the prince’s theory into practice by building a series of instruments with bizarre shapes, but the results were, alas, disappointing, the violins producing only a nasal and unclear sound. ",
    "​ However, Zach did not confine himself exclusively to innovative and avant-garde designs. He spent the final years of his life in Vienna, where he made violins of fine quality and trained various Hungarian violin makers. "

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