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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: high G.
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. Turned guide lines in upper rings. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. Bevelled G♯₃/E♭₅ touchpiece. Bell with a very wide typical Viennese integral wooden bell rim. 5keys. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throat A♮. L2: T. L3: T. L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; 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: flat square. Repair History: Top of barrel broken, brass ring added to hold it together.
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Circa 1830 - Maker:
Schemmel [Person] - 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:370 with mouthpiece.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18341