Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 1996/05

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Kohlert Clarinets
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 22:12:48 -0400

On Thu, 2 May 1996, Jack Dannenberg wrote:

> I noticed on one of the Kohlert clarinet responses said the clarinet
> was labeled Bohemia, someone else said that it must be older than
> 1918 as after that time they were made in Czechoslovokia. For what
> it's worth Bohemia is one of 2 states in the Czech Republic, the
> other being Moravia so I wouldn't try and date the instrument on
> that criterion.

I think I was the one who proposed that solution to the puzzle of the
dating of the clarinet. Yes, it is true that Graslitz was still in
Bohemia after Czechoslavakia was formed, but I believe that Kohlert
changed the logo which they stamped on their instruments after the first
world war so that it read "Czechoslavakia." That's from my memory of my
first bassoon, a Kohlert dating from the 1920's.

So for the moment, I think I will stick to my contention that it probably
is pre-1918, but would gladly defer to any more informed judgement.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu