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Description: | Clarinet in high A-flat. The bell socket is engraved: PELITTI MILANO; above a stylised spray of leaves. An oval silver plate soldered to the bell is engraved with a decorated crown surmounting a circular shield. The shield has a border of alternating stars and circles with characters below, encircling a crescent moon and three stars. Below the shield is a Maltese cross. The edge of the plate is decorated with saw-tooth design. The body is in one piece with separate bell and barrel, all of brass. Wooden mouthpiece. Eleven pillar-mounted German-silver keys (cf. Müller type), with round flaps. The speaker key is at the rear, with a projecting liner. Short A-flat key for left-hand first finger. No spectacle but side F-sharp for right-hand fourth finger. C natural is rod and axle, not hinged and co-axial with E-flat. The pillars are mounted on base plates soldered to body. All tone holes have chimneys with rims. There is a hook-shaped thumb rest on back. The barrel section of body has an enlarged socket with a rim to receive the mouthpiece. The bell has a similar socket without a rim. The tenons are cork-lined. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | cork clarinets metal leather | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-14278 |
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