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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: A.
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. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. C♯₄/G♯₅key in an accurate saddle. All other keys in blocks or turned wooden rings. 7keys. 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; side trill key for throat A-B♮ and B♭-C. R2: T. R3: T. R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: turned wooden rings, blocks, swelling, saddle. Keyhead type: flat square. Repair History: Some tone-holes filled with wax in order to tune the instrument. The mouthpiece is a replacement.
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1807-1817 - Maker:
Grenser, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Dresden/Saxony/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:522 without mouthpiece and bell.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15054