Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 1996/01

From: Nick Shackleton <njs5%esc.cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: The Name on my Clarinet
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:12:49 -0500

Having been into KLARINET a couple of weeks it occurred to me that some of
you friends are unaware of the chief source of information on
wind-instrument makers:
The New Langwill Index by William Waterhouse
published by Tony Bingham, 11 Pond Street, London NW3 2PN
his fax is 44 171 433 3662
This is a big (560 pages) compendium with about 6500 makers listed;
information on their lives, their inventions, pictures of many makers'
marks, etc. Last year it got a "best book" award from a Librarians
Association. It's not something that every clarinettist needs but something
to know about, and certainly something that every clarinettist interested in
historic clarinets and every repairer/dealer and library needs. It costs you
66 pounds by sea mail and Tony takes credit cards (if you can't wait, 80
pounds by air to the US Japan etc).
forgive me if you all knew this, Nick