Klarinet Archive - Posting 000357.txt from 2000/12

From: Gary Van Cott
Subj: Re: [kl] Antique clarinets in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:13:38 -0500

Lelia Loban wrote:
>> The clarinet that interested me most was an Italian bass clarinet by
>> Nicola Papalini (no date), made of pearwood with three brass keys.
>> The shape was partially serpentine, in tight bulges, so that it bore a
>> disquieting resemblance to a short section of intestines, but
>> slightly flattened. The fingertips would cover some of the holes
>> while other holes would lay under other parts of the fingers.

Tony Pay wrote:
>There's another instrument matching this description (I think) in the
>museum in Cologne. I don't know the details of the maker, but I can
>find out. We were there recently to play the Berlioz concert, but I was
>tired, and shamefully didn't make the effort to go and look at it. How
>interesting that there are two!

More, probably! In The Clarinet, A Cultural History there is a drawing of an
instrument of this description. The caption says Nicola Papalini,
Chiaravalle, c. 1810, Brussels, no. 940. I presume this means it is
number 940 in a collection in Brussels.

I think I have seen a photo of this type of instrument recently, but
cannot recall where.

Gary
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