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Re: What's this?

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-10-12 17:58

That truly is one ugly set of keys. Notice how the key contours vary from one part of the instrument to another: I wonder whether some of the original keys were so brittle they snapped and got replaced with keywork that doesn't quite match.

In the last picture, the three letters to the immediate right of the numeral 160 are in the Cryllic alphabet, indicating this is indeed a Russian instrument. These three letters would transliterate phonetically into the Roman alphabet as: R Ch B. Interestingly, though, there's no Cryllic equivalent of the letter N stamped below, and it's stamped with a different font set (notice how much thinner the lines are). That N was added later. Just a guess, but I think the added N supports Chris's hypothesis that the clarinet was exported from the USSR into Europe, where the Cryllic alphabet never did take over from the Russian alphabet even in the SSRs.

Lelia
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