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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: C.
Technical description: Boxwood with horn ferrules and brass keywork. Five pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, lower section, bell. Speaker and throat keys mounted in square turned rings. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. Stiegler-style B₃/F♯₅. No B♭₃/F₅. Plain L4 levers. Extremely heavily worn so RH tone-holes appear enlarged. Wide wooden bell rim. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throat A♮; throat A♭. L2: T. L3: T; E♭₄/B♭₅, side F₄/C₆. L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅. R1: T; side trill key for throat A-B♮ and B♭-C. R2: T. R3: T; B♮₃/F♯₅. R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: turned wooden rings, blocks, swelling. Keyhead type: flat round.
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Circa 1850 - Maker:
Hess [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:507, 570 with mouthpiece.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16756