Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2007/12

From: "Martin van de Ven" <mvandeven@-----.ca>
Subj: RE: [kl] Tarogato
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:38:54 -0500

They are hard to find, a company in Germany makes them. the clarinet maker
Steve fox made one years ago, I played it until he changed the pitch on it.
He now has it. He used to make noise about making them for sale, but I and
others have asked him in the past without success. The really good ones are
made by Stowasser, a hungarian maker from the early 20 cent. they are
difficult to find and hungarians are reluctant to let them go as they are a
source of national pride. I have a badly made romanian model that takes so
much practise to play in tune that I don't bother with it. They play like a
soprano, the f fingering generates an f# and you'll need other forked
fingering to get some of the accidentals. I recorded and toured with Steve
Foxes instrument and I really like the sound, I think the German company is
Hammerschmidt.

Good luck let me know if you find one.

Martin
P.S. there is a Taragot track on The CD I made with the Flying Bulgar
Klezmer band, it`s called Der Yiddisher Soldat in die Trenches

>From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Tarogato
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:59:36 -0500
>
>I just got itchy to get a Tarogato- don't ask me why. My question is, is
>it like a wooden soprano sax? I have a soprano sax. Do I need the full
>system or the simple system? Where would I get one anyway?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Fred
>
>
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