Clarinet, B-flat/A
Maker
Franz Soukup
Date1840-1850 ca.
Place MadeSaaz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on upper joint, lower joint and bell, and on upper joints: [eagle] / Franz / Soukup / SaazMarkingsStamped 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
Published References"Recent Acquisitions." _The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter_ 23, no. 4 (August 1996): 4.
Credit LineGift of William J. Maynard, 1996
Object number05929
On View
Not on view1825-1835 ca.
1840-1860 ca.