Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 2005/11

From: "Aad Overeem" <aad.overeem@-----.nl>
Subj: Re: [kl] Georg Ottensteiner clarinet (was Odd Clarinet)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:08:48 -0500

Danyel (and listmates),

Thanks a lot (Vielen Dank) for your interesting e-mail. Almost every day I
learn something from this great 'Klarinet' list!

Found another interesting Georg Ottensteiner at:

http://www.uark.edu/ua/nc/NCCollectionPage/Page/Ottensteiner.htm

...and more about older clarinets on this interesting clarinet collection
website:

http://www.uark.edu/ua/nc/NCclarinetcollections.htm

All the best,

Aad Overeem

----- Original Message -----
From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Georg Ottensteiner clarinet (was Odd Clarinet)

> Hi Aad,
>
> sorry I didn't check my mails in a while. Now the Ottensteiner was sold
for
> above 5000, which I think was still a bargain. Yes, Ottensteiner, who also
> worked for Beermann and designed the original Beermann-system with him,
made
> the clarinets for Muehlfeld. They are still kept in a Meiningen museum
> (www.meiningermuseen.de/muehlfeldklarinette.html). Schwenk & Seggelke make
> excellent copies, but the originals are still something else. I think they
> might actually represent the apex of clarinet making. The full-Beermann
> keywork leaves nothing to be desired and the sound and intonation are
> fantastic. I particularly like the feature of a thumb-f#/c# key, as
> originally proposed by Richard Mueller. I have never before seen this on a
> C. The C-clarinet on Ebay had the same collector's mark as those in
> Meiningen! It is quite possible that this was actually Muehlfeld's
> C-clarinet or belonged to one of his colleagues in the Hofcapelle. Anyway,
> this one was made exactly as the A and Bb from the Muehlfeld estate, even
> including the stained boxwood! It would be very interesting to hear how
> Mahler sounds on this C-clar., à-prospos the alleged inherent shrillness
of
> the C.
> BTW, the original mouthpieces used by Muehlfeld (copies available from
> Schwenk & Seggelke) are comparable to the "Wiener Konzertbahn" made today
by
> O. Hammerschmidt, very long and quite closed, with a large chamber. Using
> one on my original Berthold, Speyer produces a rather similar type of
sound,
> which I think is very important for Brahms and quite unlike anything I
found
> in modern clarinets. To me, the sound of all modern clarinets (including
> Oehler system) I know is quite dull, lacklustre in comparison with this
kind
> of instrument.
>
> Best wishes,
> danyel
>
> www.echoton.de/clar.html

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