Clarinet

Clarinet. Nominal pitch: B-flat. Stained fruitwood body with brass keywork, four horn ferrules and integral wooden rim. Five pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, left hand joint, integral right hand/lower joint, bell. Müller system, augmented. Mouthpiece, possibly original, has a short table but accepts a ligature. Simple brass thumb-rest, fixed with two screws. Sixteen keys with saltspoon cup covers mounted variously in blocks and on pillars. Fingering: left-hand thumb: straight speaker key with chimney, thumb-hole (?covered for F natural?); left-hand first finger: A natural and A-flat keys in same turned ring, fingerhole; left-hand second finger: fingerhole; left-hand third finger: cross B-flat key, fingerhole; left-hand fourth finger: duplicate lever opening B-flat key above, cross G-sharp key, duplicate lever opening right-hand fourth finger's E-flat, long C-sharp key, bascule key with extra touch for right-hand first finger. Fingering: right-hand thumb: rod in "trunnions" opening left-hand fourth finger's C-sharp key; right-hand first finger: long trill key, side key for ?F sharp (the head seems too high up to give F natural) with touch of trill key curving over it, extra touch on bascule key; fingerhole; right-hand second finger: fingerhole; right-hand third finger: cross F natural key, finger hole; right-hand fourth finger: side F-sharp; angled E-flat in "trunnions"; hinged C natural key with brass guide below tone-hole. Left hand joint and bell stamped 'S.KOCH/WIEN'. A maker's mark in the form of a stylised Hapsburg eagle appears above each inscription.