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Clarinet, B-flat/A

Date: 1840-1850 ca.

Place Made:Saaz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe

Serial No: none

SignedStamped on upper joint, lower joint and bell, and on upper joints: [eagle] / Franz / Soukup / Saaz

MarkingsStamped on upper and middle joints: B
Stamped on corps de rechange: A
Stamped on ring on upper joint: I

Description5 sections: barrel, top joint, middle joint, bottom joint, bell. Simple system. 5 brass keys with flat, round covers, mounted in rings, with springs attached to keys; boxwood body; horn ferrules; two corps de rechange for A (top and middle sections).

Part of a set with NMM 5930, clarinet in C.

DimensionsOverall assembled in Bb: 648 mm; in A: 682 mm
Mouthpiece: 72 mm
Maximum diameter of bell: 85 mm
Barrel: 75 mm
Upper joint: 183 mm
Middle joint: 96 mm
Lower joint: 122 mm
Bell: 100 mm
Corps de rechange upper: 204 mm
Corps de rechange middle: 109 mm

Terms

Clarinet

Credit Line: Gift of William J. Maynard, 1996

Not on view

Published References"Recent Acquisitions." _The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter_ 23, no. 4 (August 1996): 4.

Object number: 05929