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Annotated Checklist of Clarinets with Five Keys
(in chronological order)
Clarinets with Five Keys
(in chronological order)
NMM 7385. Clarinet in A by August
Grenser, Dresden, 1785. Four sections. Stamped on one-piece lower
joint and bell: [crossed swords] / A. GRENSER / DRESDEN / 1785 /
1; on upper and middle joints: [crossed swords] / A. GRENSER
/ A; on barrel (very faint): [crossed swords] / [illegible mark].
Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys (four original, plus added f-sharp/c-sharp''
key) with flat, square key covers; mounted in square rings. Keys for
a', b-flat', and f-sharp/c-sharp'' springs attached to keys; a-flat/e-flat''
and e/b'' springs attached to wood. Doubled holes on upper joint third
tone hole for c' to c-sharp' and lower joint fourth tone hole for f
to f-sharp. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 646 mm. Purchase
funds gift of Tom and Cindy Lillibridge, Bonesteel, South Dakota, 1999.
Lit.: Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet 30, No. 1 (December 2002), p. 40.
André P. Larson, 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: National Music Museum 2003), p. 45.
NMM 9927. Clarinet in C by
Moussetter, Paris, ca.
1785. Five sections.
Stamped on barrel, upper joint, middle joint, lower joint, and bell:
[illegible mark] / MOUSSETTER / A PARIS / C. Boxwood, horn
ferrules.
Five brass keys with flat, square key covers mounted in square rings.
Keys for e/b' and f-sharp/c-sharp'' springs attached to keys; a', register
key, and a-flat/e-flat'' springs attached to wood. Length (top of barrel
to bottom of bell), 525 mm. Ex coll.: Peter Koval, Casedelo, Brazil.
Board of Trustees, 2000.
Lit.: "Recent Acquisitions," America's Shrine to Music
Museum Newsletter, Vol. 28, No. 1 (February 2001), p.
6.
NMM 4242. Clarinet in C by Heinrich
Grenser, Dresden,
ca. 1796-1806.
Five sections. Stamped on top joint: [saxon swords] / H-GRENSER /
[star,
star]; on barrel: [saxon swords] / 2. Boxwood, horn ferrules.
Five
brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted
in blocks. Top joint c'/g'' hole doubled. Length (top of barrel to
bottom of bell), 533 mm. Board of Trustees, 1988.
Lit.: Deborah Check Reeves, "The Clarinets at The Shrine
to
Music
Museum," The Clarinet, Vol. 24, No. 3 (May-June 1997), pp.
44-46.
NMM 2768. Clarinet in C by John
Ashton, Boston, ca.
1825-1850. Five
sections. Stamped on barrel, middle, and bottom joints: J. ASHTON /
BOSTON; on top joint: J. ASHTON / BOSTON / C; on bell:
[eagle] / J.
ASHTON / BOSTON / C. Probably made for John Ashton by Graves and
Company,
Winchester, New Hampshire. Boxwood, ivory ferrules. Five brass keys with
flat,
round key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in blocks. Length (top
of barrel to bottom of bell), 532 mm. Mouthpiece of cocus, long shank.
Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and
1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 69-71, Plate VIII.
NMM 7478. Clarinet in B-flat by
Gimpel, Lahr, Germany,
ca. 1800-1825.
Five sections. Stamped on middle joint: GIMPEL / A / LAHR / [dot
inside
circle] / B; on top joint: LAHR / [dot inside circle] /
B; on bell:
GIMPEL / A / LAHR / [dot inside circle]. Boxwood, horn ferrules.
Five
brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted
in round rings and blocks. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 591
mm. William J. Maynard Collection, 2000.
NMM 2838. Clarinet in C, Saxony, ca. 1800-1850. Five
sections. Stamped
on barrel, top joint, middle joint, and bottom joint: [crown] /
2C; on
bell: [crown] / DRESDEN / 2C. Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass
keys
with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in square
rings. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 501 mm. Arne B. Larson
Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 109, 110, 113, Plate XIV.
NMM 2847. Clarinet in C, Saxony, ca. 1800-1850. Five
sections. Stamped
on top, middle, and bottom joints and bell: [crown] / DRESDEN / C.
Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel
to bottom of bell), 503 mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 130, 131, 134, Plate XVII.
NMM 2852. Clarinet in B-flat, Germany, ca. 1800-1850.
Four sections
(missing barrel). Unsigned. Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys
with flat, round key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in square
rings. Length (top of top joint excluding tenon to bottom of bell), 517
mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 142, 143, 148, Plate XIX.
NMM 2856. Clarinet in C, Germany, ca. 1800-1850. Five
sections.
Unsigned. Stained maple, horn ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, round
key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top
of barrel to bottom of bell), 515 mm. Arne B. Larson Collection,
1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 151, 152, 155, Plate XX.
NMM 2874. Clarinet in B-flat, Germany, ca. 1800-1850.
Five sections.
Unsigned. Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, round key
covers; springs attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of
barrel to bottom of bell), 570 mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 170, 171, 174, Plate XXIII.
NMM 7411. Clarinet in C by Hermann
Wrede, London, ca.
1814-1829. Five
sections. Stamped on barrel, top joint, middle joint, and bottom joint:
H-WREDE / LONDON; on bell: H-WREDE / 15 / ST JOHNS · SQUARE
/
CLERKENWELL /
LONDON / C. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs
attached to keys mounted in blocks. Length (top of barrel to bottom of
bell), 533 mm. William J. Maynard Collection, 1999.
NMM 6182. Clarinet in B-flat by
Valentin Metzler,
London, ca. 1815-1830.
Five sections. Stamped on top joint: METZLER / LONDON /
105 · WARDOUR · ST;
on middle and bottom joints: METZLER / LONDON; on bell: J
· MUFF /
LEEDS.
Boxwood, ivory ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in blocks. Length (top of barrel to
bottom of bell), 599 mm. William J. Maynard Collection, 1998.
NMM 4663. Clarinet in E-flat by
Clair Godefroy aîné,
Paris, ca.
1818-1821. Five sections. Stamped on bell: GODEFROY / A PARIS. / J.
A &
W. GEIB (upside down) / MAIDENLANE / 23; on bottom joint:
[sunburst] /
GODEFROY / A PARIS.; on back of top joint and middle joint: J. A &
W.
GEIB. Imported by J. A. and W. Geib, New York. Boxwood, horn
ferrules.
Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys,
mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 407
mm. Gift of the Harold Keating family, Flandreau, South Dakota, 1989.
NMM 2854. Clarinet in E-flat by
Klemm and Brothers,
Philadelphia, after
1819. Five sections. Stamped on top joint: KLEMM & BRO. /
PHILA..
Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, round key covers,
but e/b' key missing; springs attached to keys mounted in square rings.
Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 428 mm. Built probably in the parent factory in (Mark)Neukirchen. Arne B. Larson
Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 146-148, Plate XIX.
NMM 125. Clarinet in C by J. G. or
W. Jaeger,
Neukirchen, ca. 1820. Five
sections. Stamped on bottom joint: IAEGER / NEUKIRCHEN. Boxwood,
ivory
ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached
to keys mounted in square rings and one block. Zinc tube inserted in
barrel, brass tone hole inserts for left hand 1-3 fingers and right hand
1-3 fingers. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 519 mm. Gift of
Bessie Pettigrew, Flandreau, South Dakota, 1974.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 14, 15, 20, Plate I.
NMM 5819. Clarinet in C by Astor
and Company, London,
ca. 1820. Five
sections. Stamped on barrel, top joint, middle joint, and bottom joint:
ASTOR & CO / LONDON / [unicorn head]. Boxwood, ivory
ferrules.
Five
brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted
in round rings with underpinnings. Barrel lined with brass. Length (top
of barrel to bottom of bell), 534 mm. Rosario Mazzeo Collection,
1995.
NMM 4241. Clarinet in B-flat by
Heinrich Christian
Eisenbrandt,
Baltimore, ca. 1820-1825. Five sections. Stamped on all sections:
EISENBRANT / BALTIMORE. Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys
with
flat, square key covers with notches at corners; springs attached to keys
mounted in blocks. Long keys straight. Length (top of barrel to bottom
of bell), 602 mm. Board of Trustees, 1988.
NMM 5722. Clarinet in B-flat by
Heinrich Gottlob
Gütter, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, ca. 1820-1825. Five sections. Stamped on bell:
GÜTTER
/
BETHLEHEM / PENN / B; on barrel, top joint, and middle joint:
B.
Boxwood, horn ferrules. Probably made for Heinrich Gottlob Gütter
by
Gütter family, Neukirchen. Five brass keys with flat, square key
covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel
to bottom of bell) 599 mm. Mouthpiece of stained boxwood. Ex coll.:
Keith Stein, Springfield, Pennsylvania. Board of Trustees, 1993.
Lit.: Lloyd P. Farrar, "Under the Crown and Eagle,"
Newsletter of the
American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 1984), p. 7
(illus.).
Stewart Carter, "The Gütter Family: Wind Instrument Makers and
Dealers to
the Moravian Brethren in America," Journal of the American Musical
Instrument Society, Vol. 27 (2001), pp. 48-83
(illus.).
NMM 2835. Clarinet in B-flat by
James Wood and Son,
London, ca.
1821-1832. Four sections (missing barrel). Stamped on bell:
Ja,,s
Wood &
Son, (cursive) / NEW COMPTON STRT (shaped in semi-circle) /
50
/ SOHO /
[circle between two sideways teardrops] / LONDON / [lyre]; on top,
middle, and bottom joints: Ja,,s Wood & Son (cursive). Boxwood,
ivory
ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached
to keys mounted in blocks. Length (top of top joint excluding tenon to
bottom of bell), 536 mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 102, 103, 106, Plate XIII.
NMM 2720. Clarinet in B-flat by
Meacham and Company,
Albany, New York,
ca. 1827-1828. Five sections. Stamped on barrel, middle joint, bottom
joint, and bell: MEACHAM & CO / ALBANY.
Boxwood, ivory ferrules.
Five
brass keys with flat, square key covers for register and a' keys, other
three with flat, round key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in
square rings and blocks. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 651.8
mm. Mouthpiece of cocus or ebony, long shank. Gift of Sandra Hulbert,
Spring Valley, Minnesota, 1980.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 62-64, Plate VII.
NMM 5774. Clarinet in C by Wolfgang Küss,
Vienna, ca. 1827-1830. Five sections. Stamped on top joint: [Hapsburg
eagle] / Küss (in script) / Wien (in script) / C;
on bottom joint: [Hapsburg eagle] / Küss (in script)
/ Wien (in script). Elaborately carved barrel and bell. Boxwood,
horn ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs
attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel to bottom
of bell), 519 mm. Board of Trustees, 1994.
Lit.: "1994 Acquisitions Include Rare Pianos, Harp, Woodwinds," The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 22, No. 2 (January 1995), pp. 2-3.
André P. Larson, Beethoven: Musical Treasures from The Age of Revolution and Romance, with essays by John Eliot Gardner, William Meredith, and Gerhard Stradner, exhibition catalog, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California, January 30-March 21, 1999 (Santa Ana: The Bowers Museum, 1999), p. 12 (illus.).
André P. Larson, 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: National Music Museum 2003), p. 46.
NMM 5925. Clarinet in C by Graves
and Alexander,
Winchester, New
Hampshire, ca. 1827-1833. Four sections. Stamped on barrel and in two
places on bottom joint: GRAVES & / ALEXANDER; on top joint and
bell:
[eagle] / GRAVES & / ALEXANDER / C. Boxwood, ivory ferrules. Five
brass
keys with flat, round key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in
blocks. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 526 mm. William J.
Maynard Collection, 1996.
NMM 2721. Clarinet in B-flat by Asa
Hopkins,
Litchfield, Connecticut, ca.
1829-1837. Five sections. Stamped on top, middle, and bottom joints:
A
HOPKINS / LITCHFIELD; on barrel and bell: A HOPKINS / LITCHFIELD /
CONN.
Boxwood, ivory ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel
to bottom of bell), 591.6 mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 65, 66, 71, Plate VIII.
Phillip T. Young, 4900 Woodwind Instruments (London: Tony
Bingham,
1993),
p. 125 (18).
NMM 3995. Clarinet in C by Herman
Wrede, London, ca.
1829-1840. Five
sections. Stamped on barrel, top joint, middle joint, and bottom joint:
H-WREDE / LONDON; on bell: [unicorn head] / H-WREDE / 35 /
LR
WHITE CROSS
ST / CRIPPLEGATE / LONDON / C. Boxwood, ivory
ferrules. Five brass
keys
with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in round
rings with square cut-offs. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 524
mm. Gift of Mrs. Laura Johnson Whelan, Mondovi, Wisconsin, 1986.
NMM 2872. Clarinet in C with corps
de rechange for
B-flat, Austria or
Bohemia, ca. 1830. Five sections. Stamped on top joint, bottom joint,
and bell: [Hapsburg eagle] / Wien (cursive) / C; on middle
joint: C; on
top joint of B-flat corps de rechange: [Hapsburg eagle] /
Wien
(cursive)
/ B; on middle joint of B-flat corps de rechange: B.
Boxwood,
horn
ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached
to keys mounted in square rings. Length, C clarinet (top of barrel to
bottom of bell), 511.3 mm; B-flat top and middle joints (excluding
tenons), 292 mm. Mouthpiece of cocus. Arne B. Larson Collection,
1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 167-169, Plate XXII.
André P. Larson, Amadeus: His Music and the Instruments of
Eighteenth-Century Vienna.
An
Exhibition Presented by The Shrine to Music Museum . . . at the Dahl Fine
Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, February 4-March 2, 1990, p.
16
(illus.).
NMM 5755. Clarinet in C by
Graves and
Company,
Winchester, New Hampshire,
ca. 1830-1850. Stamped on top joint: [eagle] / GRAVES & Co /
WINCHESTER
/ N.H.; on barrel, middle joint, and bottom joint: GRAVES & Co /
WINCHESTER / N.H.; on bell: [eagle] / GRAVES & Co / WINCHESTER /
N.H. /
C. Boxwood, ivory ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, round key
covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in round rings. Length (top of barrel to
bottom of bell), 532.4 mm. Mouthpiece of pewter lined with brass, long
shank. Cecil B. Leeson Collection, 1994.
NMM 2652. Clarinet in C by Chabrier
Peloubet, New
York, ca. 1833-1836.
Five sections. Stamped on top joint: ATWILL'S / MUSIC SALOON / N -
YORK
/ C. PELOUBET / NEW - YORK / C; on barrel, middle joint, and bottom
joint:
C. PELOUBET / NEW - YORK. Boxwood, ivory ferrules. Five brass
keys with
flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted in blocks.
Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 523.6 mm. Arne B. Larson
Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and
1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 53, 54, 57, Plate VI.
NMM 1518. Clarinet in C by Firth,
Hall, and Pond, New
York, ca.
1833-1847. Five sections. Stamped on top joint and bell: FIRTH HALL
&
POND / FRANKLIN SQE / N - YORK / C; on barrel,
middle joint, and
bottom
joint: FIRTH HALL & POND / N - YORK. Boxwood, integral wood
ferrules.
Brass rings at top and bottom of middle joint and at top of bell. Five
brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs attached to keys mounted
in blocks. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 527 mm. Mouthpiece
of cocus, long shank, with wood ring near base. Arne B. Larson
Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and
1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 35, 36, 43, Plate IV.
NMM 2653. Clarinet in E-flat by
Graves & Company,
Winchester, New
Hampshire, ca. 1835. Four sections. Stamped on barrel, top joint, and
two places on bottom joint: GRAVES & Co / WINCHESTER / N.
H.; on
bell:
[eagle] / GRAVES & Co / WINCHESTER / N. H. / Eb.
Boxwood, ivory
ferrules.
Five brass keys with flat, round key covers; springs attached to keys
mounted in round rings. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 441.5
mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and
1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 55-57, Plate VI.
NMM 2661. Clarinet in C by Chabrier
Peloubet,
Bloomfield, New Jersey, ca.
1836. Three sections (missing barrel). Stamped on top joint: C / C.
PELOUBET / NEW YORK; on bell: C / C. PELOUBET / NEW YORK / FACTORY
AT /
BLOOMFIELD / N. J.
on bottom joint: C. PELOUBET / NEW YORK. Boxwood, integral wood
ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, round key covers; springs attached
to keys mounted in round rings. Length (top of top joint excluding tenon
to bottom of bell), 477.5 mm. Ex coll.: Frederick Crane, Iowa City,
Iowa.
Board of Trustees, 1980.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and
1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 58, 59, 64, Plate VII.
NMM 3530. Clarinet in C by Jabez M.
Camp, Litchfield,
Connecticut, ca.
1837-1841. Five sections. Stamped on top and middle joints: J. M. CAMP
/
LITCHFIELD / CONN; on bell: A. HOPKINS / LITCHFIELD / CONN.
Boxwood,
ivory ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers; springs
attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel to bottom
of bell), 530 mm. Mouthpiece: blackwood. Gift of Dorothy Meade,
Harrison, Nebraska, 1984.
Lit: Phillip T. Young. 4900 Woodwind Instruments
(London: Tony
Bingham, 1993), p. 125 (11).
NMM 3590. Clarinet in G by Franz
Czermak, Junior,
Prague, ca. 1840. Five
sections. Stamped on barrel: [Hapsburg eagle] / F. Czermak (cursive) /
Prag (cursive); on top joint: F. Czermak (cursive) / Prag
(cursive) /
(upside down) G; on middle joint: F. Czermak (cursive) /
Prag (cursive) /
G; on bottom joint and bell: F. Czermak (cursive) /
Prag
(cursive).
Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, square key covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in square rings. Length (top of barrel
to bottom of bell), 308.8 mm. Mouthpiece of cocus. Board of Trustees,
1985.
Lit.: André P. Larson, The
National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion:
National Music Museum, 1988),
p. 37 (illus.).
NMM 5922. Clarinet in D, Germany,
ca. 1840. Four
sections. Unsigned.
Stamped on top and bottom joints: D. Inscribed by hand on bell:
Henry
Meyrose / Hanover / Germany / May 11 1803 / First Band in / Milwaukee.
Boxwood, horn ferrules. Five brass keys with domed, round key covers;
springs attached to keys mounted in square rings and blocks. Length (top
of barrel to bottom of bell), 436 mm. William J. Maynard Collection,
1996.
NMM 5929. Clarinet in B-flat with
two sets of corps de
rechange for A, by
Franz Soukup, Saaz (Žatec), Bohemia, ca. 1840-1850. Five
sections.
Stamped on top joint, bottom joint, and bell: [eagle] / Franz
(cursive) /
Soukup (cursive) / Saaz (cursive); on top and middle joints:
B; on top
joint of both sets of A corps de rechange: [eagle] / Franz
(cursive) /
Soukup (cursive) / Saaz (cursive); on top and middle joints of
both sets
of A corps de rechange: A; on top ring mount on B-flat top
joint and on
one only top joint A corps de rechange: I. Boxwood, horn
ferrules. Five
brass keys with flat, round key covers; springs attached to keys mounted
in square rings. Length B-flat clarinet (top of barrel to bottom of
bell), 576 mm; A top and middle joints (identical length for each set,
excluding tenons), 313 mm. Part of a set with NMM 5930. William J.
Maynard Collection, 1996.
NMM 5930. Clarinet in C by Franz
Soukup, Saaz (Žatec),
Bohemia, ca.
1840-1850. Five sections. Stamped on top joint: [eagle] / Franz
Soukup
(cursive) / Saaz (cursive); on top and middle joints: C; on
bottom joint:
Franz Soukup (cursive) / Saaz (cursive). Boxwood, horn
ferrules. Five
brass keys with flat, round key covers; springs attached to keys mounted
in square rings. Part of a set with NMM 5929. Length (top of barrel to
bottom of bell), 512 mm. William J. Maynard Collection, 1996.
NMM 2765. Clarinet in C by Firth,
Hall and Pond, New
York, ca. 1842-1847.
Five sections. Stamped on barrel, middle joint, and bottom joint:
FIRTH
HALL & POND / N - YORK; on top joint: C / FIRTH HALL & POND / N -
YORK;
on bell: FIRTH HALL & POND / FRANKLIN SQR / N - YORK /
C. Boxwood, ivory
ferrules. Five brass keys with flat, round key covers; springs attached
to keys mounted in blocks. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 533
mm. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800
and 1880
from the
Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of
South Dakota, 1983), pp. 67, 68, 71, Plate VIII.
NMM 5087. Clarinet in C, Germany or Bohemia, ca.
1885-1900. Four
sections. Unsigned. Stained boxwood, German silver ferrules. Five
German silver keys with domed, round key covers; springs attached to keys
mounted in pillars. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 506 mm.
Frederick Crane Collection, 1991.
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