ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews wind instrument makers work in the field generation by generation and discusses what their maker's mark might have been. The breadth of the instrument making of the first generation of the family may be grasped by looking at a surviving inventory of 'the instrument chest made by the Bassani brothers' which contained 'instruments so beautiful and good that they are suited for dignitaries and potentates'. The Bassanos could have sold instruments to waits, the municipal musicians that existed in almost every English city and town. The making, and particularly the repairing, of instruments was continued by members of the second generation of the Jasper Bassano family. Anthony Bassano may have made some or all of the woodwind instruments bought for the English Court in the early seventeenth century, details of which are now revealed for the first time in the surviving records. The Anglo-Venetian Bassanos were important makers and repairers of musical instruments.
