Conn Albert System Clarinet: Museum Object and Cultural History
Conn Albert System Clarinet: Date made: 1895. maker: C. G. Conn. Object Name: clarinet.
The object in the museum catalogue
This clarinet was made by C.G. Conn in Elkhart, Indiana in 1895. It is an Albert System clarinet in E-flat, serial #496, made of double-wall nickel silver plated brass. This clarinet is stamped:
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1895
- maker: C. G. Conn
- Object Name: clarinet
- Physical Description: brass (overall material)
- Physical Description: nickel silver (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 16 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 41.275 cm x 7.3025 cm
- Measurements: cap: 2 9/16 in x 1 1/16 in; 6.50875 cm x 2.69875 cm
- Measurements: mouthpiece: 3 in x 1 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 2.8575 cm
- Measurements: barrel: 1 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 4.445 cm x 2.8575 cm
- Measurements: upper joint: 6 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 16.1925 cm x 4.445 cm
- Measurements: lower joint: 7 1/2 in x 2 in; 19.05 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made: United States: Indiana, Elkhart
- ID Number: 1988.0498.02
- accession number: 1988.0498
- catalog number: 1988.0498.02
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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