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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: B♭.
Technical description: Cocus wood with silver ferrules and keywork. Five pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, lower section, bell. Mouthpiece with silver lay. Delicate keywork. Shaped levers for L4, F₃/C₅ tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. All other keywork in pillars on plates. Alternative G♯₃/E♭₅ for L4. Horn thumb rest. Bevelled shallow cups. 13keys. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throat A♮; throat A♭. L2: T. L3: T; E♭₄/B♭₅. L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅; G♯₃/E♭₅. R1: T; side F₄/C₆; side trill key for throat A-B♮ and B♭-C. R2: T. R3: T; B♭₃/F♮₅; side B♮₃/F♯₅. R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: pillars on plates, swelling. Keyhead type: shallow cup.
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Circa 1840 - Maker:
Ziegler, Johann Joseph - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Vienna/Austria - 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:564, 625 with mouthpiece.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17715