Klarinet Archive - Posting 000399.txt from 2001/11

From: MVinquist@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Ottensteiner Clarinets
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:47:23 -0500

Tony Pay wrote: >> [In the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, for
Borodin], both I and the second clarinet used (Seggelke) copies of the
Ottensteiner instruments that belonged to Muehlfeld, which are still in the
museum at Meiningen. <<

Tony -

Keith Puddy had an Ottensteiner Bb owned by Muehlfeld put in playing
condition a few years ago and recorded the Brahms sonatas on it. Have you
had a chance to play it? How does the Seggelke copy compare? What do you
use for a mouthpiece? What are the reeds like?

Ken Shaw

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