DescriptionTechnical description: Boxwood with horn ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. 5 keys.
L0: T; speaker.
L1: T; throat A♮.
L2: T.
L3: T.
L4: E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅.
R1: T.
R2: T.
R3: T.
R4: T. G♯₃/E♭₅.
Keymount type: turned wooden rings. Keyhead type: square flat.
Condition: Mouthpiece missing.
Repair History: Barrel possibly a replacement.
Inscribed on upper and lower section and bell with Habsburg eagle / "HAMMIG / WIEN(N)"; on barrel "WIEN / C"; on upper and middle section "B". (Hammig stamps WIEN with a symbol for two Ns.) |