In the second half of the eighteenth century the instrument hitherto known as the oboe da caccia (hunting oboe) receives the name of English horn. Indeed we find it under its old name in several scores by Bach and other composers of the time. The English horn is nothing but a larger-sized oboe; it is in fact about twenty centimeters longer and is cut in F, that is a fifth lower than the typical oboe, which is in C. This originally rather defective and inconvenient instrument because of its length and the layout of the holes, was improved during the second half of eighteenth century by Giuseppe Ferlendis of Bergamo. A rare instrument in wood made in the early nineteenth century by Joseph Felix Riedl (maker of brass instruments who died in 1840) with the collaboration, for the bell, of Johann Tobias Uhlmann (1776-1838) who was Viennese too. The instrument is angled in rosewood with 11 keys brass alloy and ivory joints.
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