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Re: What is it?

Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-02-14 02:23

Richard Keilwerth, like other firms, made „gedeckelte“ soprano clarinets to a small extent till at least the 1990ties. They were aimed at saxophonists (misleadingly called “Jazzklarinette” by some) and people with handicaps. Every some months you may find one on the German auction site. Clarinetists in general don’t like them very much: stuffy, not flexible etc.

The “gedeckelte” Keilwerth clarinet you are showing here looks like new but the bellring indicates that it is an older model. It is mainly German system with rather basic keywork, with some modifications for saxophone (Boehm?) type fingering. Keilwerth must also have made one of their better designs, an Oehler model, in a “gedeckelt” version (Model 7a, as I've read in a German forum). In the actual Richard Keilwerth catalogue "gedeckelt" models are not offered.

On your photo the two Oehler typical resonance vents on the right side of the lower joint would not be visible; the bell seemingly doesn’t have the E improvement vent of actual Oehler models.

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