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Description: | This ornate clarinet was a prized exhibit in the Boosey & Hawkes Museum at the firm's factory in Edgware. It was made by Carl Boosé for the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition. Boosé was a clarinettist and helped to establish Boosey & Sons as sellers of musical instruments. This clarinet was displayed at a number of important exhibitions in London during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890, the Musical Loan Exhibition of 1904 and the Private Musicke [sic.] exhibition held by the Galpin Society at the Royal Festival Hall in 1957. It is now on display in the Music Gallery at the Horniman Museum.
Clarinet in B-flat. Boxwood or sycamore. Silver keys, ferrules and bell ring deeply embossed with floral motif. Thirteen keys, including speaker key on front of instrument. Rosewood mouthpiece, associated mouthpiece cap (does not fit however). In five pieces. String lapped tenons. The barrel, upper joint, lower joint and bell bear a silver plaque inscribed: C. BOOSE/LONDON.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 2004.846.
caption: Rear view of object no. 2004.846. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bamboo cork wood silver Work iron rosewood Boosey & Hawkes City of Westminster animal lacquer clarinets string 422.211.2 Individual reedpipes with single reeds with cylindrical bore with fingerholes Crystal Palace Musical Instrument Making boxwood ivory German silver leather African blackwood | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-122427 | Go to resource |
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