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Author: ez
Date: 2010-04-22 02:15
okay, I have in my collection clarinets made in France, USA, Japan and England. I am looking for some wooden clarinets (preferably at least intermediate level) made by other European countries such as Romania, Germany, Russia, Czechoslovakia etc. Can anyone give me some names for me to hunt in the ebay...Thanks!
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Author: RoBass
Date: 2010-04-22 07:42
Amati would be the first name for East-European clarinets. You can buy this material actually designed or from the Keilwerth-era through the whole socialism period of Czechsoslovakia...
German made models to be splitted into Boehm/French models or German system generally. Most manufacturers did German bore and keywork (appr. 30 brands), some did and do French too (4 or 5 brands). Which is of your interest?
From Poland/Bulgaria/Romania/Hungary... there is no stuff known, but from Russia (more detailed from Ucraine - Savod ORFEI in Kiev). Sometimes "Russian" clarinets were selled at German ebay-platform.
Former GDR produced intstruments in Markneuirchen's factories. The will be from Uebel mostly. Please check for this material the http://www.museum-markneukirchen.de/start.htm and theirs board (menue item: forum)! The German www.klarinette24.de/forum could be helpful too.
Don't hesitate to write in English, most of the members understand you and will answer quickly;-)
kindly
Roman
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2010-04-22 14:55
I have a number of Kohlert clarinets (including a couple of altos and a bass), which were Bohemian/Czech/German, depending on which area included Graslitz/Kraslice at the time, from around 1900 through the mid-1950s. I consider these to be some of the most underappreciated instruments of all time. If you want Selmer-Paris playing qualities and workmanship at a Bundy price, take a look at older Kohlerts.
Don't be fooled by the current crop of "Kohlert" instruments, which are reportedly made in Vietnam -- they use the Kohlert name but have no connection to the real thing.
I have an older F. Arthur Uebel Bb clarinet (Oehler) system, an Uebel A clarinet (Boehm system), and bass clarinet (Oehler); they are very fine instruments as well.
Older Amati saxes are pretty decent while I've found their clarinets to be variable in quality. Amati (a nationalized conglomerate under the Communist government) took over the Kohlert factory in 1948, while the Kohlert family and workmen fled to Germany (eventually settling in Winnenden), so there is a connection between Kohlert and the earlier Amati instruments.
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