A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mackintosh, John
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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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