Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 2001/08

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:21:11 -0400

<<<I believe that metal clarinets were made in the early to mid 1800s.>>>

I will have to check some references, but it seems to me that is quite a bit
too early for metal clarinets. Boehm was doing his experimentation on
materials for flutes in the 1840's, and Sax patented the saxophone about
1846, and both of those would have pre-dated metal clarinets, I think.
Perhaps this is a typo and it should have read "early to mid 1900s."

I started playing the clarinet in 1949, and a few people were still playing
them at that time, although even then they were considered relics. I wasn't
aware of any metal clarinets made after the early years of World War II.
The military bands owned and used a lot of metal clarinets at that time. (I
have two which are stamped "U. S. Army.") But, any metal that was available
from about 1942 on would certainly have been used for armaments and not for
clarinets, even though I have known some clarinetists whose tone quaility
would make it possible to use their instruments as weapons! ;-)

Ed Lacy
EL2@-----.edu

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