DescriptionTechnical description: Boxwood with ivory ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Sixth key is C♯₄/G♯₅, mounted between pillars on a small plates. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling.
L0: T; speaker.
L1: T; throat A♮.
L2: T.
L3: T.
L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅.
R1: T.
R2: T.
R3: T.
R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅.
Keymount type: turned wooden rings, blocks, swelling, pillars on plate. Keyhead type: flat square.
In a brown modern clarinet case with violet velvet. Also in case: wooden 19th century moutpiece with hardly readable mark, reed, cord, wooden reed cap.
Repair History: The mouthpiece is a replacement.
Previous ownership: ex- Alan Hacker (his first boxwood clarinet).
Inscribed on all pieces with star / "GENTELLET / A PARIS" / star / "B". |