COLLECTION NAME:
MIMEd (Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh)
Record
Work Record ID:
0032077
Licence:
ID Number:
81
ID Date:
14 Sep 1980
Title:
Clarinet. Nominal pitch: C.
Title Notes:
13 keys with duplicate lever.
Creator:
Koch, Stephan
Production Notes:
Stephan Koch died in 1828 and was succeeded by his sons.
Description:
Technical description: Stained boxwood with ivory ferrules and silver keywork. Five pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, lower section, bell. Mouthpiece cocus, with long table, grooved for cord, expanding at base to meet swelling of barrel. Barrel bulbous, lined with metal to fit silver tuning-slide on top of upper section. Speaker unusual, the motion of the rear thumb-lever being conveyed to front key by a ring mechanism concealed by a silver band; the tone holes have integral wood seatings: the two blocks of long keys for L4 are lined with silver and have a silver `saddle' carrying the central duplicate E♭ key; ferrules ivory, half-round on bell and lower section, tapered with rim on barrel; thumb|rest ivory, shaped, screwed to body. Little-finger key swelling fusiform; leaf springs; diagonally-mounted duplicate lever under L4 opens the E♭₄/B♭₅ cross-key; duplicate key under L4 gives an alternative G♯₃/E♭₅; side key under R3 (or R4) for B♮₃/F♯₅. Bell has wide ivory rim. 12 key system plus second touchpiece on L4 for E♭₄/B♭₅ key and alternative G♯₃/E♭₅ on L4. L0: @I{T; speaker. L1: @I{T; throat|A♮; throat|A♭. L2: @I{T. L3: @I{T; E♭₄/B♭₅. L4: @I{C♯₄/G♯₅; alt. side key for E♭₄/B♭₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅; G♯₃/E♭₅. R1: @I{T; side F₄/C₆; side E♭₄/B♭₅; side trill key for throat|A-B♮ and B♭-C. R2: @I{T;, R3: @I{T; B♭₃/F♮₅; side B♮₃/F♯₅. R4: @I{F₃/C₅; G♯₃/E♭₅. Keymount type: blocks, swelling. Keyhead type: round flat.
Work Type:
Musical Instrument
Work Type:
Wind
Work Type:
Clarinets
Work Type:
Clarinet
Measurement:
581; 521 to top of barrel.
Measurement:
at|C₄|hole|12.8; at|F₃|hole|13.1.
Production Place:
Vienna
Production Place:
Europe
Production Place:
Austria
Production Place:
Central Europe
Repository:
MIMEd
Repository:
Rendall Collection
Repro Link ID:
0032077c-0001
Repro File Type:
Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes):
63111376
Repro Title:
Clarinet. Nominal pitch: C (Stephan Koch) : TOP
Repro Creator Name:
Dominic Ibbotson
Repro Rights Statement:
© The University of Edinburgh
Repro Publication Status:
Full public access
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