手杖长笛/双簧管 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	手杖长笛/双簧管
品名（英）	Walking-Stick Flute/Oboe
入馆年号	2006年，2006.86a–c
策展部门	乐器（Musical Instruments）
创作者	Georg Henrich Scherer【1703 至 1778】【德国人】
创作年份	公元 1750 - 公元 1757
创作地区	德国, 布茨巴赫（Germany, Butzbach）
分类	航空电话（Aerophone）
尺寸	1 3/8 × 42 1/4 × 1 3/8 英寸 (3.5 × 107.3 × 3.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种罕见的乐器结合了横笛和手杖形式的双簧管，由独角鲸象牙制成，这是一种曾经比黄金价值更高的珍贵材料，据信来自神话独角兽的角。手杖的上部被塑造成横笛，下部被塑造成双簧管。要将乐器演奏为双簧管，必须在下端插入双簧片，并重新定位单调。 Georg Hrich Scherer是十八世纪著名的德国木管乐器制造商家族中最后一位也是最重要的成员。他的客户中有腓特烈大帝，他演奏并拥有少量长笛。国王追求测试不同材料的声学属性的科学兴趣，这可能部分解释了独角鲸象牙的使用。据说这件文书是弗雷德里克送给他的财政部长弗里德里希·冯德霍斯特的礼物。已知只有两个由不可分割的独角鲸象牙制成的手杖乐器幸存下来，这个例子和一个在达姆施塔特的黑森州立博物馆。这两件乐器都带有Georg Hrich Scherer的印记。
介绍（英）	This rare instrument, combining a transverse flute and an oboe in the form of a walking stick, is made of narwhal tusk, a precious material once valued higher than gold and believed to be from the horn of the mythological unicorn. The upper part of the walking stick is fashioned as a transverse flute and the lower part as an oboe. To play the instrument as an oboe, a double reed must be inserted at the lower end and the one key repositioned. Georg Henrich Scherer was the last and most important member of a well-known eighteenth-century family of German woodwind makers. Among his clients was Frederick the Great, who played and owned a small collection of flutes. The king pursued a scientific interest in testing the acoustical attributes of different materials, which may account in part for the use of narwhal tusk. This instrument is said to have been a gift from Frederick to his finance minister, Friedrich von der Horst. Only two walking-stick instruments made of an undivided narwhal tusk are known to survive, this example and one at the Hessiche Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. Both instruments bear the stamp of Georg Henrich Scherer.