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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: B♭.
Technical description: Brass body with brass keywork and cocus mouthpiece. Three pieces: mouthpiece, one-piece body, bell. Mouthpiece with long brass tenon sliding into top of body for tuning. Skeleton tube with chimneys and finger-rests for L0, L1, L2, L3 and R1 finger-holes. The cross-key for F natural shares an axle with the spectacle. All leaf springs have raised seats on the body. Bell, conical with soldered brass rim, carries bascule of B natural key: no ferrules, but sleeve at top of body has half-round wire rim: thumbrest shaped and swallow-tailed, soldered to a finger-rest. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throatA♮. L2: T; throatA♭. L3: T; cross E♭₄/B♭₅. L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅. R1: T; side F₄/C₆; side trill key for throatA-B♮ and B♭-C. R2: T + spectacle. R3: T + spectacle (forked B♭₃/F♮₅); cross B♭₃/F♮₅. R4: G♯₃/E♭₅; F₃/C₅. Keymount type: pillars on base-plates soldered to body. Keyhead type: saltspoon. Repair History: The chimney and 'finger-rest' for the R1 finger-hole a replacement by E.Planas, 1986.
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Circa 1875, perhaps earlier - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Probably England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:422.211.2 (Single) clarinets with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.211.2 (Single) clarinets with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:656; 580 to top of body.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15480