Clarinet in C

Catalogue number: 4.6

Original name: Clarinet in C.

Type or system: 11 Keys.

Maker: Goulding & Co.

Place of origin: London, c.1811/1812.

Overall size: 514mm total length not including mouthpiece.

Bore: Mouthpiece: 14.1mm; barrel: 13.9mm - 13.9mm; upper joint: 14.8mm - 12.9mm; lower joint: 13.2mm - 18.5mm; bell: 20.8mm - c.48mm.

Technical description: Four sections of boxwood and mouthpiece of dark wood. Mouthpiece: c.71mm (tip broken); barrel: 62mm (including metal tuning slide); upper joint: 190.5mm; lower joint: 229.5mm; bell: 98.8mm.

Metal tuning sleeve between barrel and upper joint. Eleven brass keys with round salt spoon style flaps. Nine mounted on raised blocks and rings, Low F sharp / C sharp; low E / B natural patent keys mounted on brass saddles. The 鈥榩atent鈥� stamped on middle joint may be the trill link key.

Key work and finger holes	Finger hole diameter (av.)
Left hand thumb:	T; B flat / speaker
Left hand, first finger:	T; A flat; A natural
Left hand, second finger:	T; (A flat)
Left hand, third finger:	T; E flat / B flat
Left hand, fourth finger:	Low F sharp / C sharp; low E / B natural; trill link to C sharp / G sharp
Right hand, first finger:	T; A - B natural trill key
Right hand, second finger:	T; C sharp / G sharp
Right hand, third finger:	T; B flat / F natural
Right hand, fourth finger:	T; B natural / F sharp

Inscription: Stamped on barrel and top joint: (motif: crown) / 鈥淕OULDING & CO鈥�; Stamped at the top of the middle joint: 鈥淲OOD鈥橲 / PATENT鈥� (this probably refers to the trill link); Stamped at foot of the middle joint (motif: crown) / 鈥淕OULDING鈥�; Stamped on barrel: (motif: crown) / (motif: feathers) / 鈥滸OULDING & D鈥橝LMAINE / SOHO SQUARE / LONDON鈥�; stamped on the low F sharp / c sharp key: 鈥淲OOD鈥橲鈥�; stamped on the low E / B natural key: 鈥淧ATENT鈥�.

Faults: Bell ferrule missing. Barrel ferrule cracked. Mouthpiece tip broken.

Usable pitch: Plays at a鈥� = 435 Hz.

General literature: James Wood was probably the 鈥榠nventor鈥� of the patent which is almost certainly the trill key.

Illustration references: See below

Previous collection numbers: A and B: 115.