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Author: WF
Date: 2000-02-22 17:36
A colleague of mine has recently purchased a contrabass clarinet marked Moennig, with a custom Selmer case. We assume that it was probably made by either Horst Moennig or W. Hans Moennig, as we have read that he did make a few instruments. Any ideas? Any approximate values?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-02-22 20:02
Cant help re: C B cl, I have a "MOEnnig [not oomlat O] Bros. Artist Model, Germany" simple-system [military?] oboe and have had or have seen an H Moennig Bb clar, so yes, the family made instruments, some prob. dating back to late 1800's. Does your CB appear to be quite old? If so, try the Early Clarinet site where the "collectors collect" and you may find out more. Interesting, Don
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Author: WF
Date: 2000-02-22 20:07
This one is simply marked Moennig, not Moennig bros., so that's really what intrigued us most about it. It doesn't appear too early, probably 1930's - 1950's.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-02-22 20:42
Don Berger wrote:
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Cant help re: C B cl, I have a "MOEnnig [not oomlat O] Bros. Artist Model, Germany" simple-system [military?] oboe and have had or have seen an H Moennig Bb clar, so yes, the family made instruments, some prob. dating back to late 1800's. Does your CB appear to be quite old? If so, try the Early Clarinet site where the "collectors collect" and you may find out more. Interesting, Don
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Just a piece of trivia on spelling. When German words and names are printed for use in countries that do *not* use the German notation, the umlauted letters are printed as a plain letter followed by the letter e.
Thus
ä is printed as ae
ö is printed as oe
ü is printed as ue
So in documents used internally in Germany, Moennig is most probably printed as "Mönnig." This was established as a standard method of transcribing words containing umlauts so that they could be typed on non-German typewriters, etc. Of course with computers this can be programmed in. On our US keyboards, we do not have these letters but can generally enter them in a variety of ways. I can tell you from personal experience that German computer keyboards do have the umlaut characters on them.
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Author: Eoin
Date: 2000-02-24 13:24
Dee wrote:
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ö is printed as oe
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Hence the two common systems of clarinet, Böhm and Öhler.
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