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Clarinet. Nominal pitch: B♭.
Technical description: Boxwood with horn ferrules and brass keywork. Presumably 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. Very wide horn ferrules, turned wooden rings and integral bell rim. Extendable L4keys. No thumb rest. Brass guide for L4 F♯₃/C♯₅. No guide lines in upper wood rings. L0: T; speaker. L1: T; throat A♮ [missing]. L2: T. L3: T. L4: 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: Speaker key replaced.
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Circa 1800 - Maker:
Doke - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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probably Linz, 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:520 to top of upper tenon.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18512