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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-26 04:19
Sorry, this is totally not clarinet related ... but serious googling came up with zilch.
If anyone can point me (URL) in the direction of a maker of Rackets/Ranckets ... I'd appreciate it (an Aussie one would be an added bonus but not necessary).
diz | sydney
Rackets did eventually evolve into clarinets, didn't they??
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Author: ron b
Date: 2004-08-26 05:00
Raketts I've seen pictures of, Diz, are double reed instruments. The instrument is constructed of several lengths of tube (five or six, I'm not sure just now) connected much as a bassoon so that the compact length is quite short. The tone holes, covered and uncovered on the outside 'barrel', are angled from the outside into the tube at the proper distances to make the different notes. I've seen kits available for the do-it-yourselfers in our midst, Lark in the Morning (San Francisco) comes to mind.
It appears to me more like a baby bassoon/oboe novelty instrument than a clarinet like one but a world of fun if you have lots of spare change 
When I have a little more time I'll try to get a link to you, if I can find it again. But you might try looking at Lark's online catalogue. URL, I believe, is something like "larkinam... something or other".
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-26 05:12
ron ... I know what a racket is ... just want to find out where to buy one or an historical instrument maker ...
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-26 05:56
ron ... bingo, thanks very much
jo ... great, thanks to you, too
diz | sydney
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Author: kenbear
Date: 2004-08-26 06:37
diz,
contact Winsome Evans. I think she's still on the music faculty at Sydney Uni.
Ms Evans used to run an early music group named The Renaissance Players... shawms rackets, pommers - the whole box and dice. Their instruments must have come from somewhere...
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-08-26 14:54
diz -
Hans Mons's page has a list of baroque double reed makers, including several for rackets: http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/makers.htm
The Early Double Reed Service sells them. http://www.loraine.com/main.html
Dan Deitsch makes historical woodwinds, including chalumeaus, clarinets and various sizes of bassoons, though no rackets. He's a very nice fellow and will know who makes good ones. http://www.danieldeitch.com/
Otto Steinkopf made the first modern rackets, sold through Moeck. He pretty much improvised them, and they were, to put it mildly, crude in design and construction. Lots of them are floating around, but they should be avoided.
See generally the list of double reed suppliers on Brian's Double Reed Page, http://www.uky.edu/~moses/bdrp.ref/suppliers.htm.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-26 22:26
ken(s) - thanks for the tips ... I had thought about TRP wasn't sure if Evans was still at Sydney University ... I'll give her a call.
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