Klarinet Archive - Posting 000463.txt from 2000/12

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Antique clarinets in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:15:14 -0500

I wrote,
> During a weekend with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Kevin and I
> visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts....
[snip]
> Another clarinet is about the size of a clarinet in A. Michel Amingue
> of Paris made it, ca. 1794, of ebony, ivory and brass. It has 5 keys
> (oblong and flat, made of bare brass), with the wooden mouthpiece
> turned the opposite of the way we play it, so that the reed would
> touch the upper lip.

Tony Pay wrote,
>>Is that as I would imagine, a function of the display, or is there
>>independent evidence that determines the 'reed uppermost' configuration?

The clarinet had a separate mouthpiece that could have been turned either
way. The curator must have decided it belonged reed-up, but I don't know
why. It was frustrating to find so little information available about this
display! Sorry I can't give a better answer.

Lelia

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