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Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2009-11-07 16:28
Does anyone have any experience with the chalumeaux made by Polish maker
Grzegorz Tomaszewicz (specifically his A415 tenor chalumeau)?
His site (www.tands.pl) has no mention of chalumeaux but I saw a Denner-copy
sycamore tenor chalumeaux of his for sale recently for $600 US.
(I posted this to the earlyclarinet group a while a go but there seems to have been no activity there for the last month. I see some of its members are active here, (Ken S. Peter C) so I thought I'd post here. Peter Cigleris, if you are reading this, I posted to the earlyclarinet group about a possible 7th Molter D clarinet concerto, in case your Molter project has not been realized yet.)
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Simon Aldrich
Clarinet Faculty - McGill University
Principal Clarinet - Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Principal Clarinet - Orchestre de l'Opera de Montreal
Artistic Director - Jeffery Summer Concerts
Clarinet - Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-11-07 17:21
Simon -
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about Tomaszewicz. Like you, I lament the lack of activity on the Early Clarinet list. I've posted a couple of times recently, trying to jump start discussions, but no one seems interested.
The community of chalumeau makers is small. You might consider getting in touch with one of them, or with the players (most of whom are in Europe).
Dan Deitch http://www.danieldeitch.com/eindex.html is a respected chalumeau maker and is quite welcoming.
Joel Robinson http://www.robinsonwoodwinds.com/ makes an early clarinet, and excellent baroque oboes and bagpipes, so you could also ask him. He's a very nice fellow, and, not being a maker,won't feel threatened by the possibility of a lost sale.
Ken Shaw
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2009-11-07 20:04
Simon,
Thanks for that. A 7th Molter Concerto?? Please let me know. That project will be in the pipeline as soon as I get myself an instrument made.
I'm afraid I don't know anything about this maker, and never saw this advert. I look at the site and there doesn't seem to be any mention of Chalumeaux. Perhaps he/she no longer makes them.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2009-11-07 21:05
Thanks for the reply Ken
>The community of chalumeau makers is small.
And getting smaller it seems.
>Dan Deitch http://www.danieldeitch.com/eindex.html is a respected >chalumeau maker and is quite welcoming.
I read a post to earlyclarinet this past summer in which Dan wrote:
"I am sorry to have to say that I have given up making early clarinets and
chalumeaux. After having had a carpal tunnel syndrome operation
(successful, I am happy to say) due to building too many instruments
completely by hand, especially bassoons, the wrong way, I decided to give
them up. I managed to also give myself tennis elbow at the same time.
Making mouthpieces exacerbates the tennis elbow and the key-making recreates the conditions for the carpal tunnel syndrome. At this point I am just
making flutes, which take much less filing, scraping, etc."
I understand Moeck has discontinued making chalumeaux as well. From their Historical Woodwind Instruments page:
"After much consideration, we have ultimately decided after four decades, to close our department, "Renaissance and Baroque Woodwind Instruments".
Despite all our efforts, the number of customers and people interested in these unusual instruments has always remained small. Our idealism always weighed in favour of their production and keeping tradition alive as opposed to the dictates of economy.
However, both the employees entrusted with the making of these instruments are now taking their well-earned retirement. Thus the point in time has arrived where we are discontinuing the production of these instruments, which were always more admired rather than acquired.
We have not taken this decision lightly as the crumhorns, the shawns, the cornets, and all the other instruments represent more than 500 hundred years of European history of music and culture."
Thanks for pointing out Joel Robinson's site. I was not aware of him.
Am I wrong or is there no longer a chalumeau-maker in North America?
Simon
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-11-07 21:19
> Am I wrong or is there no longer a chalumeau-maker in North America?
I think that Steven Fox (http://www.sfoxclarinets.com) makes replicas of period instruments - I don't know whether or not that would include chalumeaux as well.
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Ben
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Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2009-11-07 22:06
Ben wrote: "I think that Steven Fox (http://www.sfoxclarinets.com) makes replicas of period instruments - I don't know whether or not that would include chalumeaux as well."
He does not make chalumeaux according to his site. I talked with him last week and he is not taking orders for baroque or classical clarinets for another year.
Simon
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Author: Gregor
Date: 2013-12-30 01:24
Hello,
More information about Chalumeau from Grzegorz Tomaszewicz's workshop you can find for website
gtmusicalinstruments.com
sincerely
GregorSimon Aldrich wrote:
> Ben wrote: "I think that Steven Fox
> (http://www.sfoxclarinets.com) makes replicas of period
> instruments - I don't know whether or not that would include
> chalumeaux as well."
>
> He does not make chalumeaux according to his site. I talked
> with him last week and he is not taking orders for baroque or
> classical clarinets for another year.
>
> Simon
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Author: donald
Date: 2013-12-30 08:24
btw Steve Fox now offers a Tenor Chalumeau on his website.
dn
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-12-30 19:19
Donald -
Some Stephen Fox instruments are aspirational rather than in actual production. The tipoff is the notation "price: (under review)" http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/Denner_chalumeau.html.
He's really busy. I wouldn't count on getting a chalumeau from him any time soon.
Now if he would only make a bass clarinet in C. . . .
Ken Shaw
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Author: donald
Date: 2013-12-30 22:41
Yes Steve is busy, but every instrument he makes appears on his website with "under review" as the price, so this really doesn't have any relevance to the availability of his chalumeau.
dn
Post Edited (2013-12-31 00:10)
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Author: claaaaaarinet!!!!
Date: 2017-03-21 08:02
Has anyone had experience with Mr. Tomaszewicz since this thread died in 2013? Other chalumeau makers?
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Author: greenslater
Date: 2017-03-21 11:33
No experience with chalumeau's myself but I notice that Tomaszewicz has a number of traversos for sale on that site.
Another well respected traverso maker, R Tutz (I have one of his traversos) also lists a chalumeau and some historical clarinets for sale on his website.
http://www.tutz.at/?nav=1&snav=1&lang=en&proj=01
Best wishes
Brad
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