Clarinet, B-flat
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 / BMarkingsnone
Description5 sections: barrel, top joint, bottom joint, bell, 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): 575 mm
Barrel (on clarinet) 63.3 mm; extra: 65.3 mm
Upper joint: 185 mm
Bottom joint: 221 mm
Bell: 105 mm
Bore at top of top joint: 14.7 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 14.7 mm
Bore at bottom of bottom joint: 21.3 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 Reeves, "The Clarinets at the Shrine to Music Museum," TheClarinet. Vol 24, No. 3, May/June 1997, pp. 44-45.
Deborah Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet. Vol. 30, No. 3, March 2003, p. 30.
Deborah Reeves. "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet XLVI, 2 (March 2019), 26-27.
Deborah Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet. Vol. 50, No. 3, June 2023, pp. 28-31.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02526
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