Clarinet, C (missing barrel and top joint)
Date1822-1861 ca.
Place MadeBaltimore, Maryland, United States, North America
Serial No.none
Signedlower joint and bell: EISENBRANTDescription3 sections: middle joint, bottom joint, and bell only -- missing barrel and top joint. Simple system; 3 keys extant, no ring keys (probably originally 5 keys); boxwood body; ivory ferrules; brass keys with flat square pad flaps.DimensionsMeasruements exclude tenons.
Complete from top of middle joint to bottom of bell: 306mm
Bore at bottom of middle joint: 13.0 mm
30.6 cm without the barrel and upper joint
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesEllsworth, Jane. "Early American Clarinet Makers and Sellers, 1761-1820." _Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society_ 32 (2006): 117.
Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made between 1800 and 1880 from the Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, MM Thesis, University of South Dakota, 1983. p. 163-164, 177, and 169 (Plate).
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02862
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