Klarinet Archive - Posting 000213.txt from 2005/10

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinets in the afterlife?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:16:18 -0400

Your are asking, I guess, about the instruments these players were using
or even the ones they still owned when they stopped playing, either
because of retirement or death. Marcellus and Wright were reputed to
have subscribed to the "blown-out" theory and replaced their instruments
on a regular basis. Gigliotti used to come back with new clarinets every
time he visited the Selmer factory in Paris to refine the 10G he had
helped design and went through shipments that arrived here looking for
improvements to what he was using at the time. In fact, I own and play
on an A clarinet that I think he used in the orchestra for a relatively
short time before he found one in a new batch from Paris that he liked
better. He sold the one I own to a student who needed an instrument at
the time, who sold it to me later when he in turn decided to go back to
Buffets. I've never heard anything to suggest Bellison or Bonade changed
instruments so regularly. But even so, there may well be dozens of
clarinets around that once belonged to and were used by well known
players besides the ones that were under their beds when they died.

Karl Krelove

Bart Rogers wrote:

>Dear List members,
>
>One thing I always wondered about was what happened to
>the equipment (horn, mouthpiece, etc.) of those
>clarinetists who have passed away.
>
>What happened to Marcellus's, Gennusa's, Bonade's,
>Gigliotti's, both Kaspars', Matson's, and others
>equipment?
>
>Hopefully the clarinets weren't cremated.
>
>Bart
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>http://farechase.yahoo.com
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