Clarinet in B-flat
Clementi & Co. British
Not on view
The composer and pianist Muzio Clementi (born Rome, Italy 23 January 1752, died Evesham/Worcestershire 10 March 1832) established in 1802 a piano manufacture in London. He also sold woodwind instruments (Waterhouse, NLI, 65).
Overall size: 665
Bore: c-hole 13.6; f-hole 13.6.
Conical part: 198.
Technical description: Boxwood with ivory ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Long-tenon English-style ebony mouthpiece grooved for cord. Waisted English-style barrel. Rudiments of square wooden rings. Speaker liner projects almost to the centre of the bore. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a bell-shaped swelling. Zig-zag F♯3/C♯5 lever guided in a rudiment of a square wooden ring. Bevelled G♯3 touchpiece.
L0: T; speaker.
L1: T; throat A♮.
L2: T.
L3: T.
L4: E3/B♮4; F♯3/C♯5.
R1: T; trill key for throat A-B♮.
R2: T.
R3: T.
R4: T; G♯3/E♭5.
Keyhead type: flat round.
Keymount type: blocks and swelling.
Inscribed on all pieces except for the unstamped mouthpiece "CLEMENTI & Co. / LONDON"
(Heike Fricke, 2014)
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