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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: B♭.
Technical description: Boxwood with horn ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Brass lined thumb-hole. Extendable levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. Stiegler's innovation B♭₃/F♮₅key on a wide brass lever operating with a needle spring. 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. R1: T. R2: T. R3: T; B♭₃/F♮₅. R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: turned wooden square rings, blocks, swelling. Keyhead type: square flat.
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Circa 1830 - Maker:
Stiegler [Family] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Munich/Germany - 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:579
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/14666