Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 1996/04

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Please help identify this clarinet
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 20:20:46 -0400

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Al Rice wrote:

> Your 8-key Eb or D clarinet was made by the firm of Husson & Buthod in
> Paris about 1850. According to The New Langwill Index: A Dictionary of
> Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors by William Waterhouse
> (London, 1993) this firm was active from about 1848 to 1857, the firm
> continued in operation only to about 1862 with a third partner, L.E.J.
> Thibouville. A copy of a Husson & Buthold catalog may be obtained from
> Arnold Myers, Curator, Edinburgh University Collection of Historic
> Musical Instruments, a.myers@-----. The catalog shows four different
> styles of clarinets with 6 and 10 keys.

Thanks very much. I was sure someone out there would know more about the
instrument.

One thing which strikes me is that the 8 keys which the instrument has
appear to have very much the same function as on the modern Boehm system
clarinet. It is completely unlike a couple of Albert system instruments
I have.

Would it be accurate to describe this as an early example of the
application of Boehm principles to the clarinet?

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu