NMM 2527.  Clarinet in A by Georg Ottensteiner, Munich, ca. 1860-1879. Four sections. Stained boxwood, silver ferrules. Eighteen silver touchpieces, four silver rings. Improved simple system. Stamped on barrel, top joint, bottom joint, and bell: [star] / OTTENSTEINER / A MÜNCHEN / A. Additional barrel. Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell):  607 mm. Original case. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.

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Lit.:  Jerry E. Kramer, Clarinets Made Between 1800 and 1880 from the Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. thesis (University of South Dakota, 1983), pp. 44, Plate V.

Deborah Check Reeves, "The Clarinets at the Shrine to Music Museum," The Clarinet, Vol. 24, No. 3 (May/June 1997), pp. 44-45.

Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet, Vol. 30, No. 3 (March 2003), p. 30.

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