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Re: using a

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-06-27 01:36

Ruben,

Sorry if I confused you. As far as the keywork goes, your instrument should look like the one shown in the Fox article because that is a Baermann system instrument.

The big photo I sent was to let you see a close-up view of the five star flattened upside-down U logo that Ottensteiner put on a simpler, pre-Baermann 12-key clarinet. I don't know if he used the same logo on the Baermann clarinets that Muhlfeld played, but it would be interesting to find out.

As Fox says, Muhlfeld played boxwood instruments, not instruments made of ebony, but the boxwood could be stained to look darker. In fact there is a photo of what purports to be one of Muhlfeld's own Ottensteiners in what is probably dark-stained boxwood here that would not come up for me earlier:

http://www.uark.edu/ua/nc/ClarinetCollections/C.Kruspe/RichardMuhlfeldClarinet.htm.

Colin Lawson in his book on the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, refers readers to
plates 24 and 25 in Pamela Weston's "Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past" and the front cover and pages 26-7 of the periodical Clarinet and Saxophone 14/1 (1989) for detailed illustrations of the Muhlfeld Ottensteiner clarinet.

Hammerschmidt, of course, was a family of many different artisans that made (and still make) clarinets. From what you have described, you may have a Baermann (as opposed to the more complicated Oehler) system made by them.

Please put up a photo so we can see what you've got. Tony will know if it is a Baermann Ottensteiner and we can all appreciate the verdict.

Post Edited (2016-06-27 08:47)

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