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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. Mouthpiece, probably original, with ridge to hold string, filed grooves to stop it slipping. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. Integral wooden rim. 8keys. 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. R4: F₃/C₅; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: turned wooden rings, blocks, swelling. Keyhead type: flat round.
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Circa 1820 - Maker:
Adler&Co., or R.E.Westerlund. - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Bamberg/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:646 with original mouthpiece.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15945