The Hichwa-Rachor database contains one original bassoon of Caleb Gedney (1729-1769). He flourished in London from 1754 until his death in 1769. He apprenticed to and was the successor to Thomas Stanesby Junior.
Caleb Gedney Literature [Revised 8 February 2025]
Dart, Mathew. The Baroque Bassoon: Form, Construction, Acoustics, and Playing Qualities, 170-179. PhD thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2011.
Halfpenny, Eric. “Further Light on the Stanesby Family.” The Galpin Society Journal 13 (July 1960): 59–69. [Gedney apprenticed with Thomas Stanesby Sr.; there is a list of Gedney’s surviving instruments on pp. 68, 69]
Jansen, Will. The Bassoon: Its History, Construction, Makers, Players and Music, Vol. 1, 375. Buren: Frits Knuf, 1978.
Lasocki, David. “New Light on Eighteenth-Century English Woodwind Makers from Newspaper Advertisements, 95, 96.” The Galpin Society Journal 63 (May 2010): 112–24.
Lasocki, David. “Woodwind Makers in the Turners Company of London.” The Galpin Society Journal 65 (March 2012): 61–89.
Waterhouse, William. The New Langwill Index. London: Tony Bingham, 1993.
Young, Phillip. 4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments. London: Tony Bingham, 1993.
Gedney, Caleb, 6 key bassoon; Gedney1-O-Waterhouse
Gedney1-O-Waterhouse General Information