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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
18 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. Printed page 122. See the scan on archive.org.
1on the upper, and the "extra c''# key" on the lower joint. It has also extra touch-pieces to the keys for c'# and a'b on the upper joint, enabling the player to use these keys either with the right or left hand, and a duplicate key for a'b, taken with the first finger, right hand. There are 10 rollers to the keys to facilitate the fingering.
3Lent by Messrs. Boosey and Co.
5259.
7CLARINET, in b'b. Boehm system. By Rudall, Carte and Co. This instrument should properly be called the Klose clarinet. It was designed by Klose to carry out the principles according to which Boehm planned the flute bearing his name, but it only partially carries them out. In the middle register it has the f''# and f''b of Boehm, and the b''b as also made by the first finger of the right hand and the first finger and thumb of the left. It has also alternative keys to make c'' and b', with the fourth finger of either hand. In addition to the ordinary keys for the first finger of the right hand there is a key for shaking from b'b to c''. See the engraving upon page 105.
9Lent by Messrs. Rudall, Carte and Co.
11260.
13CLARINET, in b'b. Spencer's model. By Boosey and Co. This instrument is made with the "Barret" action on the upper joint, and with the following further additions, viz.:
15A duplicate f''b key on the lower joint to improve the fork f''b, making it as full-toned and good a note as that from the cross f''b key. The b'b, a twelfth below, is also brought out well by it, and this note is not playable on the ordinary 13-keyed clarinet as a fork note.
17The c''#—g''# key is placed in its proper position; as good and full a note is therefore obtained from it as any on the instrument. It can be fingered either in the usual way, or with the first finger, right hand; this alternative fingering gives certain advantages in extreme keys.
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