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Re: Fritz Wurlitzer/Erlbach

Author: Hansdenijs
Date: 2010-04-22 19:16
Attachment: Catalogus FW 1937 02a.jpg (237k)
Attachment: Bram de Wilde 01.jpg (300k)

Many thanks for the high quality photos of your very interesting set early Fritz Wurlitzers. The information about the B-flat clarinet with serialnumber 304 as given in an earlier mail is correct. Your photos supports my earlier information. The A clarinet has no signum of Fritz W. on the bell. Two possibilities: the bell is not original and replaced by a neutral bell in earlier times. Actually I don't think this is the case. It is known to me that Fritz has built in the first years after World War II (about 1946-1948) clarinets without his signum and serialnumber. The key-work of your A clarinet (full Schmidt-Kolbe system with extra side triller mechanism on the upper joint and 2 (!) fis"- gis" triller arrangements can be placed in this period. The bore is still very wide (15,2 mm). The sound of this type of clarinet was very appreciated by professionals. I have attached a fragment of the first advertisement of Fritz Wurlitzer clarinets in collaboration with Ernst Schmidt in 1937 with some early types of Schmidt-Kolbe instruments. Furthermore an early photo of Bram de Wilde, principal from the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra in the period of manufacturing of your A clarinet. Bram de Wilde played in his early years the same type of Fritz Wurlitzers as your A clarinet!

greeting from holland

Hans

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