Klarinet Archive - Posting 001240.txt from 2000/06

From: "Robert S. Howe" <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Eiffers
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:25:13 -0400

I have a large number of Eb clarinets in my collection of woodwinds. A
few play (*). Earlier instuments have a sweeter, less piercing sound.
The finest clarinet I have ever owned, now in the Detroit Symphony, was
a Buffet D clarinet. A much different sound than my modern Buffet and
Selmer Ebs, more of a C clarinet sound. Eb really should NOT be used
for D clarinet in Mahler, Strauss and Stravinsky, they do sound
differently.

Curiously, the French military band reorganization in 1861 set up a
standard band of:
2 flutes/piccs
2 oboes
4 Eb clarinets
2 Bb clarinets
2 each of saprano, alto, tenor and baritone Saxophones
and a lot of brass and percussion.

This is the only standard ensemble I am aware of that used more Eiffers
than Beefers. I would love to try some of their arrangements.

I am willing to sell those marked $$, but please write privately and
wait until I return from vacation July 18.

Robert Howe

PICCOLO CLARINETS (#keys, rings):
Schrammelklarinette, anon, Austrian (clar in hi Ab or G, I am unsure)
F, 5 key, box&brass 1820s
F, W Hall 8 key box, ivory, br 1847-74
*Eb, Klemm Bros 6k, box, iv, Ag 1819-22
Eb, David (Dijon) 1836-7 rosewood integral barrel Muller syst
Eb, Graves 6 key, box, iv,Ag 1830-50
*Eb, E Albert 1864
Eb, anon blckwd integral barrel Muller syst early19C $$
Eb, anon Viennese, 19th cent, simple systeme $$
*Eb, Buthod & Thibouville Muller, bx iv br 1857-67 $$
Eb, French, mid19c, Muller sys, box, maillechort $$
Eb, French, mid 1800s, Muller system $$
*Eb, palisander,br Buffet-Cr Boehm mid 19C
Eb, Martin, 1870s $$
*Eb, H Pourcelle, simple system 1850-1900 $$
*Eb, grenadilla Stecher Oehler(15+4,pat C#) 1890s ex Mobius**
Eb, Kaiml (Hungarian) LATE 19C-early 20c
*Eb, Pedlar Boehm 1920s metal $$
*Eb, grenadilla Buffet-Crampon Oehler (15+5,pat C#)1920s ex Smith
*Eb, Buffet-Crampon Boehm 1930s
Eb, Bettony 13+4, pC# 1930s, plastic $$
*Eb, gren, Selmer (Paris) Series 9 Boehm 1964 ex Gigliotti, Moennig
Eb/D, 5 key, "crown" (?Dresden) box, horn, brass
D, Higham 12+2, no pC#, gold plate 1860s

**used in first American performances of Mahler's later symphonies.

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