Mouthpiece for serpent.

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Instrument

Mouthpiece/Mouthpieces/Mouthpieces/Musical Instrument ; Mouthpiece

Instrument Family

Mouthpieces

Date Made

Early 19th Century ; Early 19th century

Description

Technical description: Ivory with internal and external brass sleeves on shank forming backbore and taper; medium rim contour; maximum bite curvature 2.25; hemispherical cup shape; sharp-edged throat. Cup volume 7413; shape quotient 1.332. Overall size: length 92.2; external diameter 38.6. Sounding length: cup depth 26.5; grain length 15; backbore length 50. Bore: cup diameter 25.2; minimum diameter 5.2. Depth of taper: shank depth 46.0. Diameter of taper: maximum 14.1; minimum 12.2. No inscriptions. Allocated with and possibly formerly used with serpent in C (1006). Illustration references: Workshop drawing by Raymond Parks published by the Collection, 1999; exterior view on web at http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/

Notes

R. Parks, 25.5.95; Arnold Myers, Aug 1995; Nadine Parks, Jul/Aug 1990.

Measurements

length 92.2; external diameter 38.6.

Provenance

Government allocation to the University, 1991.

Collection

MIMEd ; C.H. Brackenbury Memorial Collection

Accession Number

1007