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West Coast Makers?

Author: BentoBandito09
Date: 2010-04-16 23:33

I live in the west coast and have been looking for local makers but came up empty handed. [frown]

Or did I just miss someone or are there really no makers of clarinets in the west coast?

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-04-17 03:06

I live on the west coast, can't think of anyone for clarinets.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: skygardener
Date: 2010-04-17 04:29

Charles Bay makes clarinets. The website does not have everything that the company does, but they are in California. http://www.charlesbaywoodwinds.com/contact.html
Also the Cannonball company is in (West-ish) Utah

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: crsbryan
Date: 2010-04-17 15:01

I remember reading about someone in San Francisco with some very fine hand-built instruments, including some designed for an odd scale based on the twelfth instead of the octave. Also, conventional clarinets. If I remember right, they were very expensive.

I've been searching the interwebs, but have some difficulty tracking them down.

If this sounds familiar to anyone, please chime in, correct me, contribute, etc.

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: James Langdell
Date: 2010-04-17 16:19

Daniel Deitch in San Francisco makes historical clarinets, chalmeaux, flutes, and bassoons, as well as general woodwind instrument repairs and restoration.

http://www.danieldeitch.com

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-04-18 12:59

crsbryan -

You're probably thinking of Steve Fox's Bohlen-Pierce clarinet http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/BP_sale.html.

He wrote an article on the underlying theory http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/bpclar.html, and there are fascinating recording clips at http://www.transpectra.org/audio.html. It takes a lot of getting used to, but by the end my ears sort of understood what was happening.

Ken Shaw

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: crsbryan
Date: 2010-04-18 19:32

Steven Fox is definitely who I was thinking of. In my mind, SF must have registered as San Francisco. I blame faulty memory. Toronto is definitely not California. Sorry about that, but thank you for helping my memory!

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: BrianChau
Date: 2010-04-18 20:18

How about Morrie Backun?

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Re: West Coast Makers?

Author: davetrow
Date: 2010-04-18 21:10

When I visited Daniel Deitch's shop in February there was a newspaper article on the wall profiling him, which stated that he no longer makes any period instruments except baroque flutes, due to a repetitive stress injury. I couldn't find any reference to this on-line, but, indeed, his website now lists only baroque flutes.

He is still an awesomely-talented woodwind restorer/repair technician.

Dave Trowbridge
Boulder Creek, CA

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