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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: E♭.
Technical description: Boxwood with ivory ferrules and brass keywork. Five pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, lower section, bell.Mouthpiece: socket-type, of dark wood (probably cocus), short table, grooved for cord with 9grooves; overall size: 59.8mm, aperture 26.6mm, from tip to beginning of table 37.9.Waisted barrel, with one ivory ferrule.Upper section: speaker liner projects almost to the centre of bore.Lower section: wide ivory ferrule, no thumbrest. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a bell-shaped swelling.Bell discontinuous with an ivory rim. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throatA♮. L2: T. L3: T; E♭₄/B♭₅. L4: cross C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; zig-zag F♯₃/C♯₅. R1: T; side trill key for throatA-B♮. R2: T; cross B♮₃/F♯₅. R3: T; cross B♭₃/F♮₅. R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅, Keymount type: blocks with bell-shaped swelling. Keyhead type: round flat.
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Circa 1830 - Maker:
Wood, George [Person] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/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:482; 439 to top of tenon on barrel.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17350