Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2010/04

From: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] more historical clarinets found in kandern
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:00:17 -0400

Hallo List,
Sorry, I went into "sleep mode" for a few months as far as the clarinet lis=
t is concerned. Just getting back now to report an astounding discovery in =
Kandern (sw corner of Germany at the edge of the Black Forest).
I told the list last year about the basset horn festival in May 2009. We pl=
ayed four concerts with brief presentations of those historic basset horns =
in each concert. See http://bassetti-paletti.de/BassetHornFestival2009.html=
for more details including some brief MP3 excerpts of the concerts. Those =
historic basset horns sound delicious!
But the actual news now is:
No fewer that four more clarinet-instruments have been discovered in the at=
tic of the museum at Kandern! They are:
two five-keyed clarinets from the first half of the 19th century (not so ra=
re but both are complete and in excellent condition) and ...
two bass clarinets from around 1860! One has 22 keys and the other has 18 k=
eys. They are all complete! Bells, mouthpieces, all the keys etc. One of th=
e bass clarinets even has a metal ligature and a reed!
I'll be off-line for the weekend because 15 of my pupils and I are visiting=
the workshop in Bamberg where the basset horns were restored and the museu=
m in Nuremberg where the basset horn bells were reconstructed. 6 hours in t=
he bus ... uhhhhgg! =

More details about this new find are coming. The information is first comin=
g out in the 'rohrblatt magazine (planned) and also being sent to Albert Ri=
ce for documentation. Then I'll put up photos, a report and a listing of al=
l Kandern instruments by my friend and colleague Dr.Peter Geisler (from Sch=
opfheim, not Berlin). So drool for a while! ;-)
By the way, 2 violins have also been found in the same attic. What will the=
next discovery be?
Greetings from the Black Forest,
David
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