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Clarinet, B-flat

Date: 1936-1937 ca.

Place Made:Paris, France, Europe

Model: No. R16

Serial No: 19368

SignedStamped on barrel, top joint, bottom joint, and bell: [music lyre] / BUFFET / Crampon & Cie. / A PARIS (BUFFET / Crampon & Cie / A Paris within an oval cartouche) / BC (overlapping script) / MADE IN FRANCE

MarkingsStamped on the underside of the additional right hand little finger e-flat/b-flat' key: V

Description4 sections: barrel, top joint, bottom joint, bell. Full-Boehm system; 20 keys, 7 rings; Grenadilla wood body; nickel-silver keys, rings, ferrules; third tonehole ring for forked e-flat/b-flat; vent hole between second and third left-hand finger rings under alternate e-flat/b-flat key for intonation; bottom tenon has tonehole for the articulated c-sharp/g-sharp key; articulated c-sharp/g-sharp key with right-hand banana key between first and second right-hand finger rings for trill; alternate a-flat/e-flat key for left-hand little finger; extended range low e-flat key with elongated body.

DimensionsOverall length (from tip of mouthpiece to bottom of bell): 705 mm
Overall length (from tip of barrel to bottom of bell): 635 mm
Barrel: 66.8 mm
Upper joint: 180 mm
Bottom joint: 280 mm
Bell: 107.6 mm
Bore at top of top joint: 14.8 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 14.8 mm
Bore at bottom of bottom joint: 22.5 mm

ProvenancePreviously owned and used by donor's mother, Joyce Beck. She was given the clarinet as a present in 1947 by her grandparents, who bought it from a music store in Sioux City, Iowa. Beck was then a Junior at Tyndall High School, Tyndall, South Dakota (now known as Bon Homme High School). She played it for the last time in 1997.

Terms

Clarinet

Credit Line: Gift of Karen Streiff, 2008

Not on view

Object number: 13780