Klarinet Archive - Posting 000889.txt from 2003/05

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] B&H instruments
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 19:15:28 -0400

"Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com> wrote

>>
No, the B&H clarinets (10-10, Imperial or 926, Edgware and 8-10) have
different bores from Buffet etc clarinets and need a different m/p. The
standard Vandoren etc will be out of tune.
<<

I played several years on a B&H, when I just began to learn the clarinet.
Now I understand why I always had troubles with it, thank you very much.

I also possess an A-clarinet from B&H, bought it 1972 or -73. At that time,
the owner told me, he had not used it for over 20 years, so it must be at
least 60 years old. When I possessed it about two years, and used it often
in the amateur symphony orchestra I had joined (what a haughtiness: I played
clarinet not quite three years when I joined it...), the upper part had
cracked. I sent it to the importer, and he sent it on to B&H. After six
months I asked where my instrument had gone to, and it proved to be lost in
England. I had planned to visit an uncle of mine who lived South of London
around that time, so they gave me the address of the factory (in Edgeware,
in the North of London), and my wife and I went to to the factory. It was
really lost, so I left the instrument in the factory and a few days later
retrieved it there. On that latter occasion Mr. Baines, the directorof the
woodwinds dept. told us he was only recently named manager, but would not
have accepted the job if he had known in what mess B&H was. It was not
astonishing my upper part was lost, he said.

When I met Mr. Baines a year after, by mere chance, he told me B&H was going
to finish with the production of woodwinds.

But my beautiful A-horn (not ahorn) never sounded as beautiful as before.

Rien

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