Klarinet Archive - Posting 000606.txt from 2003/05

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Jacques Albert
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 09:44:01 -0400

Wurlitzer does a Reform-Boehm
Yamaha (German Boehm)
Hammerschmidt (Reform-Boehm)
Leithner & Krauss (? Reform Boehm)

Best Georg

Am 25.05.2003 13:35 Uhr schrieb "Matthew Lloyd" unter
<Matthew@-----.uk>:

> Don't Yamaha, inter alia, make instruments that are German on the inside
> and Boehm on the outside?
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> Matthew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ferengiz=E2de dani=EAl shawqy [mailto:rab@-----.de]
> Sent: 25 May 2003 12:31
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Jacques Albert
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> Dear all,
> I am new on the list, playing mainly "chamber jazz" in Frankfurt, =3D
> Germany (old Europe...); I switched to Oehler system a couple of years =3D
> ago, in spite of the somewhat awkward fingering, because I liked the =3D
> sound of the instruments better (especially of my old Mollenhauer Bb =3D
> which doesn't have quite as wide a bore as modern German instruments) --
> =3D
> any comments?
> I recently acquired a very nice original Jacques Albert, Bruxelles =3D
> instrument (around 1890), made for some English vendor and unfortunately
> =3D
> in B (natural!) would that be a C instrument for low pitch or a Bb for =3D
> high (military, English?) pitch?
> I also would like to know whether any one of you could share his =3D
> experience with the adoption of modern mouthpieces to this type of =3D
> instrument? It seems to have a rather pleasing, clear and singing =3D
> clarino-register but obviously the mouthpieces I have don't fit right =3D
> and the original, though still playable, isn't quite my cup of tea...
> best wishes,
> danyel
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