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Clarinet
Clarinet. Nominal pitch: A-flat. Brass body and ferrules, German silver keywork, wooden mouthpiece. Four pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, integral left hand/right hand lower joint. Eleven pillar-mounted German-silver keys (cf. Müller type), with round flaps. The speaker key is at the rear, with a projecting liner. Short A-flat key for left-hand first finger. No spectacle but side F-sharp for right-hand fourth finger. C natural is rod and axle, not hinged and co-axial with E-flat. The pillars are mounted on base plates soldered to body. All tone holes have chimneys with rims. There is a hook-shaped thumb rest on back. The barrel section of body has an enlarged socket with a rim to receive the mouthpiece. The bell has a similar socket without a rim. The tenons are cork-lined. The bell socket is engraved: PELITTI MILANO; above a stylised spray of leaves. An oval silver plate soldered to the bell is engraved with a decorated crown surmounting a circular shield. The shield has a border of alternating stars and circles with characters below, encircling a crescent moon and three stars. Below the shield is a Maltese cross. The edge of the plate is decorated with saw-tooth design.
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1850-1900 - Maker:
Pelitti [Corporation] - Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Milan (Timezone: Europe/Rome) - 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:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements: overall: 370 x 55 mm