Klarinet Archive - Posting 000263.txt from 2008/11

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Clear Clarinet
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:31:53 -0500

Kohlert is a Czech company. Schreiber, I believe, was also a Czech company. Perhaps they fled to Bad Nauheim (?) with the ethnic cleansing of Germans from Czechoslovakia after WWII. My family came here in 1909, but my cousins told me they were lined up and marched out to Germany. Most of them went as far west as possible in Germany. Gerhard Meinl told me of his father packing up his grandfather's tools on his back and hiking 5 miles west into Germany. Many Czech Germans did this. (The irony is that many of them, like my family are likely more Czech than German!)

Anyway, if Buffet is making a clear one now, perhaps it is related to the other Czech one? Assuming Buffets are still made in the Schreiber company.

I will try to reach a clarinet player, Chemistry Professor friend and ask him about the early plastics. I think Bakelite was invented in the 1880's. IBM's Senior Plastics engineer in the '70's had been Merle Johnson's apprentice and discussed early plastics with me many times, but it is just too long ago.

In many plastics, such as mouthpieces, the coloring, I have been told is merely dye. Remember the red Santy Runyon mthpcs? Others appear black, but looking through them at a strong light, they are often just a very deep red.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>
>Sent: Nov 18, 2008 4:38 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Clear Clarinet
>
>My friend just showed me a clarinet made from some sort of CLEAR
>material, like thick plexiglass(?). It was sort of like the colored
>clear LeBlancs of a few years ago. She said it belonged to her
>father and was 100 years old, but I doubt that because it was a
>standard 17-6 Boehm system instrument. The logo on it is:
>
>V. Kohlert's
>Sons
>Graslitz
>270577
>
>Does anyone have any info on this horn?
>
>Fred
>
>
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