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Anyone recognise this bass clarinet?

Author: Keith Bowen
Date: 2014-07-19 16:33

I am currently studying nineteenth-century bassoon-form bass clarinets, especially those from North Italy, and came across this website by chance:

http://anticwindbooks.chez-alice.fr/clarinet/clarbas8/clarbas8.html

I don't recognise the one labelled 'Catterini 1830' (nor for that matter the Pauer 1875), despite having searched extensively through offline and online museum catalogues, and building a list of over 60 bassoon-form bass clarinets. Does anyone have any information on these two, especially the alleged Catterini? It is not the well-known instrument in the Oxford Bate collection. I don't think it can both be Catterini and as early as 1830, but I need to track it down.

The web site above was discussed a few years ago on the bulletin board by Tony Pay and others, and was reported to be an archive of a defunct French web site. If anyone has a lead on the author, that might be helpful.

I will be grateful for any information.

Thanks

Keith Bowen
Emeritus Professor of Engineering, Warwick University UK
RCM Scholar supported by Pamela Weston Award

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