Clarinet in E-flat

Ferdinand Zogbaum had a workshop in Charleston ca. 1852 and moved to New York ca. 1854. When Rufus Fairchild joined the company in 1858 it became Zogbaum & Fairchild. The workshop flourished until after 1880. (Nancy Groce, Musical Instrument Makers of New York, 176-177.)

Overall size: 430, 491 with mouthpiece.
Bore: c-hole 12.2; f-hole 12.2.
Conical part: 128

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. Rosewood mouthpiece not grooved for cord. Speaker liner projects ca. 4 mm into the bore. Chimney on the back of the instrument. Sixth key (C♯4/G♯5) mounted on a plate probably a later addition. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. Integral wooden rim.

L0:   T; speaker.
L1:   T; throat A♮.
L2:   T.
L3:   T.
L4:   C♯4/G♯5; E3/B♮4; F♯3/C♯5.
R1:   T.
R2:   T.
R3:   T.
R4:   T; G♯3/E♭5.

Keyhead type: flat round.
Keymount type: square turned wooden rings, swelling, screwed in pillars on plate.
Inscribed on all pieces except for mouthpiece and middle section "F. ZOGBAUM / IN / NEW-YORK / E"
(Heike Fricke, 2014)