Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 1996/05

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Questionable Eb
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:01:36 -0400

On Thu, 2 May 1996, Steve Prescott wrote:

> Ed,
>
> If this Eb clarinet was made before 1918 it's probably high pitch.
> Also, I've worked on Czeck instruments before; the workmanship isn't very
> good.

Agreed - especially with regard to post-World War II ones.

> By the way, doesn't Kohlert make plumbing fixtures? ...I see the bassoon
> connection here but not the clarinet! ...Oh, I remember, it's Kohler that
> makes plumbing fixtures!

I learned to play on a Kohlert bassoon, and I think it had had an
existence in a former life as a plumbing fixture!

Ed
el2@-----.edu