A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mackintosh, John

by William H. Husk

MACKINTOSH, John, born 1767, an eminent performer on the bassoon, who from 1821 to 1835 held the first place in all the principal London and provincial orchestras. He produced a full, rich, and powerful, but somewhat coarse, tone. He is believed to have died in 1840. His son Alphonso was a violinist.

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