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Thomas Prowse British
This instrument, with only six keys, is typical of the clarinet at the end of the eighteenth century. Clarinets like this played best in keys close to the one in which the instrument was built. Because playing in distant tonalities required awkward and often out-of-tune fingerings, players needed up to six separate clarinets to be able to perform in all keys.
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Title: Clarinet in B-flat
Maker:
Thomas Prowse (British, active London, 1816–1868)
Date: 1832–68
Geography: London, England, United Kingdom
Culture: British
Medium: Boxwood, brass, ivory
Dimensions: 22 7/8 × 3 × 3 in. (58.1 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)
Classification: Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-single reed cylindrical
Credit Line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Gift, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.369.2a–c
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