Clarinet, C
Maker
Bouchmann
Date1825 ca.
Place MadeAnnonay, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on barrel: 3 / (six-pointed asterisk) / BOUCHMANN / ANNONAV / (six-pointed asterisk)Stamped on upper and lower joint, and bell: (six-pointed asterisk) / BOUCHMANN / ANNONAV / (six-pointed asterisk)
Markingsnone
Description5 sections: barrel, upper joint, middle joint, lower joint, and bell. Simple system; 7 keys; no rings; boxwood body; ivory ferrules; brass keys mounted in raised rings, blocks and lower joint stock bulge, with curved, round covers that conform to the curve of the clarinet body; metal tunning slide on top part of upper joint (between top joint and barrel); upper joint 3rd hole is doubled for C-sharp'/G-sharp''
Little is known about a maker Bouchmann from Annonay, a commune and city in the north of the Ardèche department in southeastern France, but some construction details of this instrument are characteristic of the Lyon style of manufacturing.
Recent research also revaled details for an Alsacian music professor, M. Bouchmann, at Le Collège d'Annonay, ca. 1836 (Chomel, "Le Collège d’Annonay, 1800-1880." 1902), and for one Bernard Bouchemann, musician, aged 70, resident of Annonay, deceased on 27 January 1838 (Archives de l'Ardèche).
DimensionsBarrel: 50 mm
Upper joint: 160 mm
Middle and lower joint: 210 mm
Bell: 106 mm
Bore at bottom of top joint: 13.8 mm
Bore at bottom of bottom joint: 20.3 mm
ProvenancePurchased from William J. Maynard, Massapequa Park, New York, 1996.
Published ReferencesLarson, André P. _Beethoven & Berlioz, Paris & Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789-1848. With essay by John Koster. Exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 12-November 2, 2003_. Vermillion, South Dakota: National Music Museum, 2003. (p. 47)
Reeves, Deborah Check, "The Clarinets at the Shrine to Music Museum," _The Clarinet_ 24, no. 3 (May/June 1997): 44-46.
Rice, Albert R. _From the Clarinet d'Amour to the Contra Bass. A History of Large Size Clarinets, 1740-1860_. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2009. (p. 61)
Rousselet, William, and Denis Watel. _Le Livre d'Or de la Clarinette Française_. "Larigot" XXIV spécial (September 2012): 29.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1996
Object number05949
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