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Alternative keywork

Author: stevesklar
Date: 2007-09-29 13:45

I'm searching around trying to list out all the alternate keywork clarinets in the recent past.
Such as Mazzeo, Hagmann, etc.

can you guys help list them out, and also why that keywork was first developed, any particular oddities - and in what particular notes it helped ?

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Re: Alternative keywork

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-09-29 14:46

Steve -

Anyone interested in alternative keywork should read:

Baines, Woodwind Instruments and Their History
Birsak, The Clarinet
Brymer, Clarinet
Carse, Musical Wind Instruments
Fricke, Catalogue of the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection
Grove, Clarinet article
Hoeprich, The Clarinet (forthcoming)
Kroll, The Clarinet
Lawson, The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
Lawson, The Early Clarinet
Rendall, The Clarinet
Rice, The Baroque Clarinet
Rice, The Clarinet in the Classical Period

For the Mazzeo system, search here on Mazzeo, and see also:
http://www.usd.edu/smm/Mazzeocollection.html http://www.usd.edu/smm/Mazzeoclarinets.html
and generally on Sherman Friedland's site: http://clarinet.cc/.

The Rice classical book is $98.95. I've been waiting for it to come out in paperback, like his baroque book, but so far in vain. The Shackleton catalog is $144.95 and worth every penny. The others are affordable (in the $20-30 range). Gary van Cott http://www.vcisinc.com/clarinet.htm has all or almost all of them, but make sure to get the Kroll in English.

I think the first book to get is Baines, which has photos and exploded drawings of many fingering systems, plus very good descriptions. It's also inexpensive, and of course Grove is free at the library.

This is great fun. You'll get more information than you every imagined was possible.

Ken Shaw

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Re: Alternative keywork

Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2007-09-29 15:38

To find local library sources for these works, try:
http://worldcat.org

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Re: Alternative keywork

Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-09-29 15:44

Very well said, Ken, yes LOADS of info "out there", may I add Wm Stubbins PB book to your comprehensive list. . A source of many developments/inventions which never saw the "light of commercialization" is, of course, via the US Patent Classification Systerm, Cl 84/Sub cl 382 et al "clarinet". A classification search will turn up several hundreds of "issued" patents, keyword searches as "clarinet AND company, key------, inventors, notes, etc" [your choice], with one or several more AND's for retrieval-limitation, are suggested. Will be glad to help. Go to www.USPTO/databases and/or www.Google/patents, also the Canadian Pat Office may be searched. Searches in [and obtaining copies from] FR, DE, IT, JP,etc and EP, WPO, etc will prob. be at least somewhat costly. The ICA Journal, "The Clarinet" is a great source for significant developments. Steve, you are looking at a monumental task, so, Much Luck, Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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Re: Alternative keywork

Author: stevesklar
Date: 2007-09-30 22:14

Thanks Ken, Bennett and Don,

This should keep me busy for .. well, too long !!

Steve

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