Klarinet Archive - Posting 000278.txt from 2004/11

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: RE: [kl] Moennig apprentices
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:54:21 -0500

Karl,

I have on sometimes taken apprentices. I have one that will be starting this year.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Sent: Nov 4, 2004 3:37 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Moennig apprentices

Well, Bob Schmidt, so far as I know, was a player and teacher, not a repair
tech. I will, when I have a chance, go back and read how in his book he
describes his relationship with Moennig, but I think Moennig just let
Schmidt sit next to him in the shop for awhile. I missed the other reference
you're referring to, Ed, but unless Moennig took on apprentices on some
official basis in his later years, I only know of one man who spent enough
time with him to have been described as an apprentice - Casimir Luczitski
(I'm guessing at the spelling of his last name - I really have no idea how
he actually spelled it). Cas was an interesting person - a highly skilled
repair tech in his own right, trained, I think, by Moennig and then taken
into the shop eventually as a sort of unequal, emphatically subordinate
partner. I have no idea what the business arrangement was, but Cas always
referred to Moenning as "meister" and was deathly afraid to have Moennig
know he was doing some independent repair work in his own home garage. He
worked, except for a brief experiment on his own, in Moennig's shop until
his death of cancer in the early 1970s. I can name at least half a dozen,
probably more, people that I know who sat in Moennig's shop and watched him
work - maybe even tried some work of their own - before they went out on
their own or back to playing/teaching, but I don't think any of them stayed
long or had a status Moennig would have called "apprentice." But then in the
20th-21st century U.S., I think the apprentice system has ceased to exist in
any area, so perhaps people claiming to have apprenticed with Moennig are
not using the term to describe as intense or intimate a relationship as was
once meant by the term.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:37 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Moennig apprentices
>
>
> Just today I have seen two different references on the list to people
> who were supposedly apprentices to the famous technician and
> repairperson, Hans Moennig. While I never had the opportunity to meet
> Moennig, I know several people who were on quite familiar terms with him
> who say that Moennig never had an apprentice. Yet, I have or heard of
> at least a half-dozen people who claim such a qualification.
>
> What is the truth of the situation?
>
> Ed Lacy
> University of Evansville
>
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