Bass Clarinet
Artwork Details
- Title: Bass Clarinet
- Maker: Probably Paolo Maino (Italian, Milan active 1836–1881 Milan)
- Designer: Catterini Catterino (Bologna, active ca. 1838)
- Date: ca. 1840
- Geography: Milan?, Italy
- Culture: Italian
- Medium: Wood, nickel-silver, brass
- Dimensions: L. end to end: 845 mm; Diam of bell 155mm; L. of tube, ±1733 mm; mouthpiece 110 mm; crook ±210 mm; upper r.h. (wing) section excl. tenon, ±317mm; butt ±245mm; upper l.h. (long) excl. tenon ±460mm; bell 153mm
- Classification: Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-single reed cylindrical
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 89.4.1636
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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