Clarinet, C
Maker
Georg Ottensteiner
Date1860-1879 ca.
Place MadeMunich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on all sections: [star] / OTTENSTEINER (in rising half circle) / MÜNCHEN / CMarkingsnone
Description5 sections: barrel, top joint, bottom joint, bell, and extra barrel. Baermann-Ottensteiner system (German system); 18 touchepieces; 4 rings; stained boxwood; silver-plated keys, rings, ferrules. By same maker who made clarinets for Richard Muhlfeld, the clarinetist for whom Brahms wrote his clarinet music. In a set: NMM 2525, 2526, 2527.
DimensionsMeasurements exclude tenons.
Overall length (from tip of barrel to bottom of bell): 508 mm
Barrel on clarinet: 49.3 mm; extra: 46.7 mm
Upper joint: 163 mm
Bottom joint: 198 mm
Bell: 97 mm
Bore at top of top joint: 14.3 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 14.0 mm
Bore at bottom of bottom joint: 20.5 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesJerry Kramer, Clarinet Made Between 1800 and 1880 from the Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum. MM thesis, USD 1983, p. 44, Plate V p. 50
Deborah Check Reeves, "The Clarinets at the Shrine to Music Museum," The Clarinet. Vol 24, No. 3, May/June 1997, pp. 44-45.
Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet. Vol. 30, No. 3, March 2003, p. 30.
Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet. Vol. 50, No. 3, June 2023, pp. 28-31.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02525
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