(Note: Just in the past few weeks I received a timely letter from Ronald Klimko from London, where he has been doing research on Boehm and Boehm-related bassoons. His letter sheds more light on the instrument mentioned by Dr. Jerry Voorhees in the preceding article.)- Ed.
". . . I thought you might be interested in my endeavors in this area. . . Since January I have been residing here in London compiling research material for a book on Boehm and Boehm-related bassoons which I hope to complete this summer and (I hope) publish by the Fall. My work will include 1) photographs and measurements of all the existing Triébert-Marzoli-Boehm bassoons, Haseneier bassoon, the Sax bassoon, the Gautrot, and the Kruspe bassoon; 2) historical information on all the above and on the Cornelius Ward bassoon as well; 3) a short phonograph recording of the T-M-B bassoon of Wm Waterhouse's which is the only one in playing condition, and a comparison of the tone quality of this instrument to the (modem) Heckel and the Buffet.
Concerning the Kruspe bassoon please see the enclosures. The first is from Dr. Jerry Voorhees (The preceeding article. Ed.). . . The second is the obituary of Kruspe from the Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, and the third is from the Heckel museum catalog of another Kruspe bassoon, which as you can see by comparing it to the incomplete Voorhees sketch (of the trademark. Ed.), enabled me to initially identify it as the work of Kruspe! The obituary definitely establishes that Kruspe exhibited a Boehm-like bassoon at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, and this bassoon is somewhere in the U.S.A.! I haven't been able to locate it yet but I hope to, so that I can include it in my book."