Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 1996/11

From: "Ian M. Dilley" <imd@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Taragoto anyone?
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 06:36:08 -0500

There is an English jazz musician, George Haslam, who plays one of
these. It is certainly capable of more than Transylvanian folk songs.
I thought they came from Hungary, but maybe Transylvania is part of
Hungary. My Eastern European geography is a bit shaky.

I think the price Lark in the Morning have is $4000. You would have to be prett
y serious about the Tarogato to pay that sort of price. I am currently working
in Vienna, Austria which I do know is right next door to Hungary so maybe they a
re available cheaper here. I'll try to find out.

> Tom,
> I think you can order them from a mail-order catalogue company "Lark I
n
> The Morning" which specializes in all sorts of oddball folk instruments.
> Also, check with the House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, MD (near
> DC). I am curious, tho, why anyone would ever want to play one of these
> beasts. The only use for them is to play Transylvanian (sp?) dance music and
> there is precious little call for that outside of Transylvania.
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
> Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>
> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Tom Puwalski wrote:
>
> > I need some info on where, or who might have one somewhere on the east coast
.
> > I'd really like to get one and learn to play it.
> >
>