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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2008-09-07 15:10
I found this link on Clair:
http://anticwindbooks.chez-alice.fr/clarinet/clarinet.html
....and thought it worth reposting here.
I'm not sure how accurate the labels are -- under alto1 the clarinet marked 'dolling' is one that I own, and it's just a normal A clarinet of around 1850 that was extended down to low C by Ted Planas. Beautiful instrument, of course...
Also, Alan Hacker's modified modern clarinet appears too, but labelled 'pianas' -- which is a typo for 'Planas' I imagine.
Tony
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2008-09-07 15:15
That is an amazing website. Thanks.
I see there's an oboe section as well!
Steve
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-09-07 16:51
Tony -
A thousand thanks for finding these photos, which were on a defunct French site that was only partly captured by the Internet Archive.
Most photos on the top level link to a dozen or more similar items.
The French site had a poor reputation among scholars, since it misidentified several instrument makers and included some instruments that are not clarinets (an alto Heckelphone, for example, which exists only as a single example in the Heckel workshop). There's was a good discussion of the site on the Yahoo Early Clarinet board a few years ago. See http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EarlyClarinet/message/741, for example.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-09-07 19:09
Yes indeed, Tony, many TKS, will need a few hours to look-at/admire these Golden Oldies. Also TKS to our several woodwind historians for the sites posted here. A Keeper, GBK ? Are these available to the Yahoos, Early Clarinet, Early Flute etc groups? What "Sights" ! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-09-08 11:46
Thanx for the links! On the French site, among the fascinating variants I've never seen before, if anyone knows more about bass clarinet no. 12, labelled "papalini," or has played on it, I'd love to see a thread about it. It looks as if it swallowed the python that swallowed the cat that swallowed the rat that swallowed the mouse that swallowed the frog that swallowed the beetle that swallowed the ant. I'm also especially curious about basset horn no. 13, labelled "eisenmenger." Looks as if somebody anticipated the Cubists....
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2008-09-08 13:47
There's an article on that basset horn:
The Basset Horn of J. G. Eisenmenger
Nicholas Shackleton and Keith Puddy
The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 38, (Apr., 1985), pp. 139-142
Academics with access to JSTOR can read that on line.
As for the Papalini bass, go to:
http://www.mfa.org/index.asp
and search for 'papalini'. For some reason their photo doesn't come up this morning, though.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-09-10 11:58
Thanx for the additional links. Fascinating! I think Papalini must have made that serpentine bass for one of the aliens in the "Men in Black" movies. Covering the keys with the knuckles? Uh, what kinds of knuckles did he have in mind? Yeah, he must've made that clarinet for a cephalopod.
I'm curious to see what will show up in the Smithsonian's Museum of American History now that it's opening again, after an extensive remodelling job. The musical instruments exhibit (containing a lot of non-American instruments, too) suffered for years, sometimes closed and sometimes shuffled between tossed-together temporary quarters, before the museum closed for this big re-do that should make much more efficient use of the space. It bugged me to see the instruments jammed into out-of-the-way corners or taken off display while vast open areas, suitable for pretty much nothing, just sat there.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2008-09-12 19:23
I believe they're called "Giorgi-Schaffner" flutes. I've not found much information about them.
There's one in this picture:
http://rsholmes.smugmug.com/photos/85534313_dwuBa-O.jpg
If you're using a browser such as Firefox that scales the photo to fit the window, click on the picture to get the full size version in order to see any detail. Some end blown simple flutes there too, and other oddballs. Photo taken at the Bate Collection in Oxford, 2006.
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2008-09-12 19:38
Looking in Google Books for Schaffner instruments information I found a very brief bit about Schaffner clarinets here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Hnh0G2wrJvsC&pg=PA295&dq=schaffner+flute&as_brr=3&ei=-cLKSJm4CqW0zAS0kaHpDA&sig=ACfU3U02ZnL9LF_LvSK1BWagCL8AAH9BjA#PPA295,M1
or
http://tinyurl.com/4u3lrc
after which is a description and photo of one of the weirdest instruments I've seen -- or is it two of the weirdest? A combination violin and clarinet.
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