Klarinet Archive - Posting 000519.txt from 1998/01

From: "Chuck Hatcher" <hatcher1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Kohlert Klarinet
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:15:42 -0500

I believe Bohemia (B=F6hmen) became (part of) Czechoslovakia in 1918, and=
was
taken from Czechoslovakia by Germany in 1938. I don't know what country
Graslitz is in today, possibly Czech Republic?

Keilwerth (currently making great saxophones) has a little history on the
web which says:

"Saxophone manufacturer Julius Keilwerth started his own business in 1925=
in
Graslitz, which at that time was in the then newly formed state of
Czechoslovakia. The company thrived during the 1930s until it was
nationalised in 1945, and in 1946 the Keilwerth family moved to Nauheim i=
n
West Germany."

Perhaps Kohlert made a similar move? I have heard of current Kohlert sax=
es,
but I don't know where they are made.

Sounds to me like the bell of your clarinet was made before 1918!

Of course, I am just speculating, trying to bait someone who knows the re=
al
story!

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: W LEE WOOD <WLEEWOOD@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Kohlert Klarinet

>
>I also have a similar horn, 6 ring Boehm, only the body is plastic (ie
doesn't
>float) and the bell is wood (ie floats). My guess that it was put toget=
her
>from two horns. The upper joint states:
> V.KOHLERT SONS
> MAKERS
> GRASLITZ
> A
> L.P.
>and the bell is marked:
>V.KOHLERT SONS
> MAKERS
> GRASLITZ
> BOHEMIA
> A
>I was told by the person I purchased it from that they made a student gr=
ade
>horn. The location of Bohemia was an independant country fo only a shor=
t
time
>if my memory of history serves me correctly. I also would like to know m=
ore
>about this brand.