Klarinet Archive - Posting 001497.txt from 1998/05

From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wurlitzers vs. Wurlitzers
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:52:25 -0400

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Wurlitzers vs. Wurlitzers

>There is indeed a Wurlitzer company in Germany making very fine (and
>expensive) clarinets. Most of them are the Oehler system, and are
therefore
>seldom seen in the U.S. Michele Z. of the L.A. Phil uses them.
>

Do you know anything about the Yamaha German bore clarinets?

Carl Schexnayder

>Their Boehm system clarinets are supposed to be very good as well--I recall
>that they are being used by all members of the Concertebouw (sp?)
Amsterdam.
>I recall from a magazine article that at least one of the members uses
>French-style Eb reeds on it.
>
>I started on a plastic Wurlitzer. Like you, one I knew a little bit about
>clarinets, I though I was rich. Not so--as it turns out, the unrelated
>piano company had bought a pile of Vitos and rebranded them.
>
>Now, I think that the Vito is a fine student horn. But that's all I had.
>
>kjf
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Rosen [mailto:mgervick@-----.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 1984 7:02 PM
>To: Klarinet
>Subject: [kl] Wurlitzers vs. Wurlitzers
>
>
> On the bulletin board . . .
>Just recently, Ben asked about Wurlitzers. In response, Ray Swing noted
>that I had written a letter to him saying that, "if it were really old, it
>would be worth a lot." This is not quite what I said, but I would like to
>know whether what I did say was correct.
>I stated that if his was one of the Wurlitzers made by the family of the
>same name in Germany (Sweden? some other European nation?) that it was
worth
>quite a bit. But since it was labeled as being from Boston, it was
probably
>not. Am I correct in assuming that the Boston Wurlitzer is not from the
>same person as the REALLY expensive ones?
>I'd like to know if there really IS another Wurlitzer (clarinet) company
out
>there. Otherwise, I might just have to give Ray Swing a couple hundred for
>his $90 investment (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?)
>
>-James
>
>
>
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