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Thomas Smith Violin, c.1760   Having access to the Becket Collection has been invaluable for me. To be able to learn using an instrument that is top quality means you are unhindered in your progression, in stark contrast to many other instruments that students are usually forced to borrow when they are starting off and cannot afford their own. The instrument I borrowed saw me successfully audition for the OAE/Jerwood scheme and I have since used it on numerous occasions to play professionally. I have recently bought my own bassoon.. the same make and a similar model to the ones in the Becket Collection! Siona Crosdale, Bassoon PGdip course at the RAM 2000-2002 The Becket Collection has collected the instruments of small chamber orchestras of the classical period, in the first instance entirely British instruments, both eighteenth-century originals and copies of eighteenth-century instruments. This collection is on loan to the Royal Academy of Music. STRINGS   WIND   BRASS   PERCUSSION Description Date Additional Details Strings Violins Daniel Parker c.1720   Peter Thompson 1737   Nathaniel Cross c.1743 Click here for additional details Thomas Smith c.1760   Edward Dickinson c.1770   Matthew Hardie 1789   Lockey Hill 1790   Betts c.1790   Benjamin Banks 1792   Joseph Scott c.1792   Betts c.1810   Thomas Hardie c.1820   David Rattray 2001 after J B Guadagnini, Milan Violin Bows 2 x Derek Wilson 2000   2 x Richard Wilson 2000   2 x William Watson 2000   2 x Timothy Baker 2000   2 x Brian Tunnicliffe 2000   Violas Henry Jay 1768   Betts 1800   Forster c.1820   David Rattray 2000 after Mantegazza, Milan Viola Bows 2 x Jutta Walcher 2000   Cellos Nathaniel Cross c.1740   Longman & Lukey 1770   Lockey Hill 1790   Clive Morris 1999   Cello Bows 2 x Matthew Coltman 2000   Double Bass Bernard S Fendt Jr 1834   Double Bass Bow Matthew Coltman 2000   Woodwind Flutes Roderick Cameron 1990s Grenser 8-key Roderick Cameron 1990s Grenser 1-key Oboes Richard Earle 2002 Classical after Floth, Dresden Richard Earle 2002 Classical after Floth, Dresden Clarinet Brian Ackerman 1990s Classical Bassoons Matthew Dart 2001 Classical 4-key (+2 add wing keys) Matthew Dart 2001 Classical 4-key (+2 add wing keys) Brass Horns Webb / Halstead 2002 Bohemian Hand Horn after Franz Stohr, Prague 1800 Webb / Halstead 2002 Bohemian Hand Horn after Franz Stohr, Prague 1800 Trumpets Stephen Keavy 1999 D trumpet after Hass, Nuremberg 1710-20 Stephen Keavy 1999 F trumpet after Hass, Nuremberg 1710-20 Percussion Timpani George Potter & Co 2004 1 x 21’, 1 x 23’, 1 x 26’ baroque timpani with vellum heads

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