The Funny Instrument (Henry, Roland)

Composition Year	1906
Genre Categories	Songs; For 1 voice; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; English language; For voice, piano (arr); For voices with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)

Sheet Music

Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Voice and Piano (Creighton)

Complete Score
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PDF scanned by Trevor Cramer
Ross Duncan Boyle (2020/9/3)

Arranger	Arthur W. Creighton (1851–1914)
Publisher. Info.	London: Reynolds & Co., 1906. Plate R & Co. 1198.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	With many thanks to Trevor Cramer for providing me a score without payment. In memoriam to Gordon Solie who had the score previously.
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General Information

Work Title	The Funny Instrument
Alternative. Title	Humorous Song
Composer	Henry, Roland
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IRH 1
Key	A-flat major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1906
First Performance.	1906
First Publication.	1906
Librettist	Composer
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	voice, piano
Extra Information	A song about bassoon follies, with the instrument being the punchline of jokes.

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Tagging is subject to correction, since there is scant evidence on what Creighton arranged this from. WorldCat has no evidence of a single-clef melody version of this.