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AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF STAINED BOXWOOD TREBLE (ALTO) RECORDERS by Peter J. Bressan stamped Pul/Bressan with the device of the Tudor rose on each joint; unmounted bodies in three sections, lengths 20in. (50.8cm.) and 19 15/16in. (50.7cm.)
In original leather-covered box
Peter Bressan (1663-1731), born in France, was baptized Pierre Jaillard. He came to England in 1688 and appears to have changed his name in order to simplify it for his English customers. Maurice Byrne, (The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, London, 1984, vol.1, p.269), suggests that the device of the Tudor rose stamped on Bressan's instruments was in fact the red rose of Lancaster. Bressan lived in the house that had belonged in the 16th and 17th centuries to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Byrne (op. cit.) quotes 48 surviving recorders by Bressan. This pair is not recorded in Phillip Young, Twenty-Five Hundred Historical Woodwind Instruments, New York, 1982. (2)
In original leather-covered box
Peter Bressan (1663-1731), born in France, was baptized Pierre Jaillard. He came to England in 1688 and appears to have changed his name in order to simplify it for his English customers. Maurice Byrne, (The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, London, 1984, vol.1, p.269), suggests that the device of the Tudor rose stamped on Bressan's instruments was in fact the red rose of Lancaster. Bressan lived in the house that had belonged in the 16th and 17th centuries to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Byrne (op. cit.) quotes 48 surviving recorders by Bressan. This pair is not recorded in Phillip Young, Twenty-Five Hundred Historical Woodwind Instruments, New York, 1982. (2)