Clarinet

Artist/Maker

Lamson, Paul

Place Made

Broadway New York United States of America

Date Made

1795-1805

Medium

undetermined wood –ivory –brass

Dimensions

LOA 23

Accession Number

C-176

Description

A wooden clarinet with five keys. It has white ivory rings, seven holes and four keys.

Paul Lamson was listed in the Boston City Directory as an umbrella maker in 1810; and as a woodwind maker in 1813. He was first listed in the NY City Directory in 1816 and was probably making woodwinds and strings in New York as he had in Boston. He is listed at 208 Broadway in New York between 1816 and 1818. (Nancy Groce, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS OF NEW YORK: A DIRECTORY OF EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY URBAN CRAFTSMEN. Pendragon Press, 1991, p.94.

History

This clarinet was owned by the church in Salem.

Credit Line

Wachovia Historical Society Collection