Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2002/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Roller Keys
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:55:18 -0500

At 10:32 PM 4/1/2002 -0600, Blake Arrington wrote:
>We have a German clarinetist at UNT who plays on a German System Wurlitzer
>clarinet. He gets the German clarinet magazine and it had an ad for a
>Boehm system clarinet with rollers! I don't speak German, so I couldn't
>exactly read the ad...does anyone know of this brand?

I saw a Selmer CT or BT on eBay once that had rollers for the right pinky C
and Eb keys. Unfortunately, I was outbid. It seems like such a marvelous
idea it really should be more common.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
451 Old Orchard Drive
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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