Stehle Vienna

Austria, Ca. 1850

Stamp:

on butt, bell and longjoint:
Stehle
Wien

Wood:

Maple except rosewood wing-joint

Keys:

18 shallow-cup brass keys mounted on pillars

Lenght:

135 cm

Details:

Wing-joint a later addition, subsequently repaired by “Giovanni Vincentini, Trento, 1891.” Further holes added to turn the instrument into a standard lamp.

Stehle, Johan.
Born in Würtenberg in 1809.
Settled in Vienna in 1840, and took over the workshop of Wolfgang Küss. He specialized in the making of bassoons and contrabassoons. He died in Vienna in 1871.

Bibliography:

Jansen 1978
Langwill 1993

Collection ID:

20