Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 1995/02

From: Scott Hirsch <WQ@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: cocobolo clarinet?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 11:25:42 -0500

You wrote:

>
>On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Scott Hirsch wrote:
>
>[replying to a post about allergies]
>> >
>> While this is true, it is also rare. I would estimate, as someone who has
> sold

>
>Seriously though, what kind of instruments do you sell? Is there someone
>else making cocobolo clarinets, or are they recorders or something else? I
>play a cocobolo Rossi myself, and certainly haven't had any problems of
>that kind.
>
>
I would LOVE to see a Rossi sometime. Better yet, I'd love to take my camera
into his workshop and write an article on how they are
made. I don't make instruments for a living anymore but publish a small journal
instead (The Woodwind Quarterly). When I did make
instrument, they were simple flutes, recorders, ocarinas and such.
I did have one man who purchased a flute from me where the cocobolo bothered
his lips. I sealed the carved lip-plate with epoxy which
solved the problem. I have seriously thought about making a French style
clarinet with 8 keys. I am searching for a old example to
copy. I thought that Dr. Albert Rice might have found one this last week in
California but he suspects now that the clarinet was altered
so the search goes on. It would be quite a project. As far as I know, there is
only one U.S. maker of the early clarinets (Levine) and no
one who makes a modern clarinet such as Rossi. He seems to be in a class by
himself, for the moment. --- Scott Hirsch