Klarinet Archive - Posting 000373.txt from 2000/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Antique clarinets in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:51:48 -0500

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:13:38 -0800, Gary Van Cott said:

> 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.

Sorry, I did mean Brussels, not Cologne. (We were in Brussels the day
before.) Silly me.

So, just two, so far.

Tony
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