Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 1996/07

From: Nick Shackleton <njs5%cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Brahms recordings
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:29:50 -0400

I described Muhlfeld's Baermann system clarinets in the Clarinet magazine a
few years ago. They still survive in good condition in Meiningen, Germany.
They do have a wonderful sound which is really not adequately reproduced in
the recording by Keith Puddy that has been mentioned. In the USA there is a
set of similar instruments in the Shrine to Music museum in Vermillion,
South Dakota
Nick
>>Help!
>>
>>Didn't I see a picture of a (full no less)Boehm from c. 1845
>>in Rendall's book? I presume Muhlfield played on some
>>modification of a Mueller(sorry about the spelling). Was it
>>not an Oehler? How did it differ?
>>
>>I know there have been bore modifications and changes in the
>>tone hole shapes as well as other niceties, but what changes
>>in the player's view of the mechanism has occured since 1890?
>>
>>I once had a full Boehm Selmer from c.1910; was that a period
>>instrument? (God! I gave it to the college!).
>>
>>Dick Williams, dwilliams@-----.edu, FAX (310)-516-4268
>
>M=FChlfeld indeed played an instrument modified from the M=FCller system whi=
>ch
>was, if I remember correctly, designed by Carl Baermann. This type of
>clarinet was plagued with fingering difficulties for the performer, and was
>soon to be superceeded by the Oehler. I believe that Pamela Weston
>describes this in detail in Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past which I
>unfortunately do not own and can't check for more details.
>
>Andy
>
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