Klarinet Archive - Posting 000332.txt from 2006/04

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Arnold Brilhart
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:54:23 -0400

The black ones ('Ebolin' = ebonite) were better than the ivory-coloured
plastic ones, I think. I recently met Olivier Franc, son of Rene Franc
(disciple of Sidney Bechet in France) and he plays a very old Brilhart (thus
spelled on my own vintage Ebolin, btw., I just checked to be sure) #6 on the
clarinet which he inherited from his father. It sounds very good, somewhat
like my Link Reso-Chamber (1940s), very open, broad sound. I sold an old
Tonalin (whitish plastic) that I once bought in New York to a friend who
likes it a lot while I was never exactly enraptured by it.

Best wishes,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:12 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Arnold Brilhart

> That is a very touching story for which I thank you. Are you
> sure the name was not spelled "Brillhart"? I'm not certain but
> that is how I remember it when I owned one many years ago.
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> As I remember, the Brillhart mouthpiece was made out of white
> material and the contrast with the black clarinet was striking.
> The problem was that I could never get a really good Brillhart
> mouthpiece, and finally I gave up.
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Thompson [mailto:wthompson222@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 5:03 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Arnold Brilhart
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> The discussion about setups reminded me of the time I
> met Arnold Brilhart. It was probably about 94 or 95,
> and I wasn't actively playing. I'm one these people
> that put my clarinet away for about 25 years as I
> raised a family. One Sunday I was the 'greeter' at a
> little Unitarian Fellowship in Vista, California.
> This very old, very tall visitor came up and signed
> the guest book. I didn't know anything then about who
> Arnold Brilhart was, but I recognized the name as a
> line of mouthpieces. I asked him about it, and for
> about 5 minutes he talked about being in New York and
> making mouthpieces for Benny Goodman and others in
> those earliest days. The service started and the chat
> ended. The regretful end of this is that I kicked
> around the idea of calling him up and asking for more
> stories. He seemed like someone who would have liked
> that. But I didn't, and sometime after I heard that
> he had died.
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> Wayne Thompson
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> Here's a cute article he wrote:
> <http://www.dornpub.com/SaxjPDF/arnold.pdf>.
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