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Re: Carlos Casanova plays a 1910 Oscar Oehler original clarinet

Author: donald
Date: 2018-05-16 08:52

Oskar Oehler was a genius- his clarinets are masterpieces (and each one is different- no mass production!). My wife is recording the Brahms sonatas later in the year using an Oskar Oehler clarinet from the 1890s. If she's practising when I arrive home I can hear her playing from around the back of our building, but then I come into the flat and she's only playing mp- the sound just travels, it's so resonant.
We have an OO bass clarinet (he only made a few), and despite being quite small compared to a modern bass it sounds twice as loud, it's really quite amazing- I'd use it all the time if it had a fully automatic register key (you have to swap thumb keys for anything above high A). Someone once described playing the German system bass clarinet to me as "like playing with a sock stuffed up your clarinet", but this is NOTHING like that.

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