Klarinet Archive - Posting 000656.txt from 2006/03

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] berating my friend Shalomo (Re: [kl] Clarinet Fest at Eldridge Street Synagogue, April 5)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:11:02 -0500

Thanks for posting.

Isn't it depressing how little people know about the poor old chalumeau
(who's inventor, btw., was one of the earliest klezmurim ever: Shlomo
Clarintsky, hence Shalomo -- French spelling: chalumeau)?

Did they never hear Telemann's "methodische Sonate"? Is there anything more
lovely to hear and to look at than a chalumeau? (maybe with the exception of
a Lotz basset horn)

And it's Jimmie Noone, of cause, not Johnny.

Shalom and oompah,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Beckhardt" <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Cc: <blummy@-----.net>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: [kl] Clarinet Fest at Eldridge Street Synagogue, April 5

> Article from the Jewish Week:
>
> (Reed-ing Is Fundamental)
> http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12240
>
>
> Reed-ing Is Fundamental
> It is a long, black cylinder with shiny silver keys
> and a reed at one end, and it's been around since
> Johann Christoph Denner looked at a chalumeau and
> thought, "Hey, I bet I can make something that sounds
> and looks better than a wheat stalk with a bunch of
> holes cut into it." And early in the 18th century,
> Denner did exactly that, turning the chalumeau - that
> wheat stalk that had been a shepherd's and children's
> instrument - into something sleeker and altogether
> more appropriate for serious music: the clarinet.
>

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