Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2000/02

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Making clarinets
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:24:28 -0500

In my recent prowl through the music stacks of the Evanston Public Library, I
came across a very interesting little book.

It is titled "The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker" by a gentleman named Trevor
Robinson.

It contains instructions on making all sorts of antique woodwind instruments,
including recorders, shawms, krummhorns, ........and a Denner style clarinet,
complete with two keys (you get throat Bb, or B natural, but not both).

I am somehow intrigued with the possibility of making such a clarinet,
possibly from coco-bolo, or rosewood (boxwood, if I could even get it, would
probably warp devastatingly in this yucky Chicago climate).

My question is: is there anyone on the list who has done this, or anything
similar? I would love to correspond........

Walter Grabner

http://www.clarinetxpress.com
Hand Crafted Clarinet Mouthpieces:
Bb/A, Eb, Bass
Clarinet Reed Making Kit
"Making Clarinet Reeds By Hand"

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