Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2010/04
From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net> Subj: Re: [kl] more historical clarinets found in kandern Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:33:46 -0400
This posting made my day, my week, and my month. It was delightful as well =
as being an important discovery of old basset horns.
Dan Leeson
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From: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
To: "Clarinet List" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:00 PM
Subject: [kl] more historical clarinets found in kandern
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 =
played four concerts with brief presentations of those historic basset horn=
s =
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 =
attic of the museum at Kandern! They are:
two five-keyed clarinets from the first half of the 19th century (not so =
rare but both are complete and in excellent condition) and ...
two bass clarinets from around 1860! One has 22 keys and the other has 18 =
keys. They are all complete! Bells, mouthpieces, all the keys etc. One of =
the 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 museum =
in Nuremberg where the basset horn bells were reconstructed. 6 hours in the =
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 Rice =
for documentation. Then I'll put up photos, a report and a listing of all =
Kandern instruments by my friend and colleague Dr.Peter Geisler (from =
Schopfheim, 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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