Klarinet Archive - Posting 000218.txt from 1998/08

From: "Jack Silver" <jsilver@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Brand?
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:00:24 -0400

Page XXXVII of the latest edition of Langwill lists the abbreviations used
in the book. Although you'r point is a delightful one, WWI (where the last
character is the letter I rather than the numeral 1,) stands for 'Wood Wind
Instrument. in the Langwill book.

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> From: F. Sheim <fsheim@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet Brand?
> Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:33 PM
>
> But wasn't the term WWI coined AFTER WW2? I believe that before WW2 it
was
> known as the Great War. Does this apply here?
>
> Fred (fsheim@-----.com)
>
>
> At 06:31 PM 8/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >I also thought that the abbreviation 'WWI' in Langwill was World War 1.
> >But it really stands for 'Wood Wind Instrument' which in the case of the
> >Pierre Marceau clarinet would be more appropriate.
> >
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> >> From: Jdclar@-----.com
> >> To: klarinet@-----.org
> >> Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet Brand?
> >> Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 5:05 PM
> >>
> >> Hi Sheila,
> >> According to the Langwill Index there was a Pierre Marceau in Paris
> >ariund
> >> World War 1 who manufactured brass instruments. Of course that may
have
> >been
> >> what he was known for and he may have manufactured other types as
well.
> >> Marceau was also I name that Sears put on some instruments that they
> >imported
> >> from Czechoslovokia at the time.
> >> Jack Dannenberg
> >>
> >>
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