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Clarinet, A
Date: 1840-1860 ca.
Place Made:Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on upper joint, both lower joints, and bell: DRESDEN / A
Markingsnone
Description5 sections: barrel, top joint, middle joint, bottom joint, bell. Simple system; 10 touchpieces with domed pad cups; no rings; boxwood body; horn ferrules; brass keys; F-sharp/C-sharp key shank and E/B key shank have extenders that indicates this was probably part of a corps-de-rechange, A parts here and B-flat parts missing; wood mouthpiece with scoring for string ligature, period and maybe original.
DimensionsMeasurements exclude tenons.
Length: 60.7 cm
Bell: 106 mm
Upper joint: 205 mm
Mouthpiece cap: 64mm
Middle joint: 104 mm
Barrel: 54 mm
Lower joint: 164 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 14.3 mm
Length: 60.7 cm
Bell: 106 mm
Upper joint: 205 mm
Mouthpiece cap: 64mm
Middle joint: 104 mm
Barrel: 54 mm
Lower joint: 164 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 14.3 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
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. p. 118-119, 178 and 120 (Plate).
Object number: 02842