Clarinet

An early museum label attached to this instrument indicates that it probably came from Painswick, Gloucestershire. It is a clarinet made of boxwood, in four sections (barrel, upper joint, lower joint, and bell) with ivory ferrules and brass keywork. The ferrule on the socket joint of the bell was reinforced at a later point with a brass ferrule. It has six keys mounted in blocks and lower joint stock bulge, with flat, round covers, and flat springs attached to keys. The mouthpiece is of dark wood and has grooves for a thread ligature. Nominal pitch: B-flat.