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Clarinet, C

Clarinet, C

Maker: Goulding & Company
Date: 1800-1815 ca.
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on barrel, top joint, middle joint, bottom joint: GOULDING & CO
Stamped on bell: GOULDING & CO / LONDON
Markingsnone
Description5 sections: barrel, top joint, middle joint, bottom joint, bell. Simple system; 6 brass keys with square, flat covers, sixth key is for trill in English style; no ring keys; boxwood body with ivory ferrules; no rollers for little finger keys; no patent C-sharp; in English style with cranked F-sharp/C-sharp key shank and sharp cut in bottom joint; pewter mouthpiece is from period and may be original.
DimensionsMeasurements exclude tenons.
Overall length (from tip of mouthpiece to bottom of bell): 584 mm
Overall length (from tip of barrel to bottom of bell): 532 mm
Barrel: 53.0 mm
Upper joint: 166.0 mm
Middle joint: 90.8 mm
Bottom joint: 117.4 mm
Bell: 104.0 mm
Bore at top of top joint: 13.7 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 13.8 mm
Bore at bottom of middle joint: 13.4 mm
Bore at bottom of bottom joint: 18.9 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesJerry E. Kramer. Clarinets Made Between 1800 and 1880 from the Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum. MM Thesis, University of South Dakota, 1983.

André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 37 (illus.).
Object number: 01355