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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: C.
Technical description: Boxwood with ivory ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Original boxwood mouthpiece with a long tenon grooved for cord. Turned guide lines in upper square rings. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a bell-shaped swelling. Bascule key guided in a round ring with turned guide line. Zig-zag F♯₃/C♯₅. 5keys. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throat A♮. L2: T. L3: T. L4: E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅. R1: T. R2: T. R3: T. R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: turned wooden rings, swelling. Keyhead type: square flat.
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Circa 1805 - Maker:
Milhouse, William [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:536, 599 with mouthpiece.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17416