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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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1working upon it, but this has since been lost, and the whole instrument is very much out of order. It is stamped with "L," and below "A. Grenser, Dresden." So that it is evidently one of the earliest instruments of this shape in existence, as this maker was the inventor of the bass clarinet.
3Lent by the Grossherzogliches Museum, Darmstadt.
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6Bass Clarinet, in B♭. Of stained boxwood, with four finger-holes in front and a thumb-hole behind. There are 20 German-silver keys on pillars, which give the a shake, speaker key, a, g♯, f (in duplicate), e♭, c♯, c, B (in duplicate), B♭, A♭, F♯, F, E, with all of their respective twelfths, and in the lowest register E♭, D, C♯, and C. The lower joint is curved back, thereby resembling the bassoon; this admits of the extension of the scale from the E to the lowest C below the lines of the bass clef, and giving of course the B♭ lower in real sounds. Total length, including crook and mouthpiece, 42½ inches.
8Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin, M.A., F.L.S.
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11Clarinet d'Amour, in g, French pitch. The instrument is made of boxwood, and is tipped with bone. The bell is pear-shaped and much contracted at the mouth. There are five brass keys on knobs, which give
13The instrument is stamped "P. Piana, a Milano." Total length 2 feet 9 inches.
15Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
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18Alto Clarinet, in g. This instrument is made in a curved form, much like that of the cor anglais. It is of stained boxwood, and has
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