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Re: Baroque Clarinets Chalumeau & Ocarinas

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-11-20 12:37

It is a major encouragement to hear from a chalemeau enthusiast and maker like yourself. If I acquire any influence in the local music world I hope to see a lot more chalemeau and simpler clarinets in the future. I meet far too many broken hearted ex clarinet players that abandoned their love of clarinets. The almost universal reason given is that they were broken by teachers obsessed by complex fingerings for rarely played notes combined with their teachers unwillingness to help them improve their art and style in the fundamental register . I play only 14 notes on the clarinet. When I tried to hire teachers they refused with added insult and ridicule. In Canada it seems that anything other than a Boehm clarinet is perceived as either a toy or outdated novelty that belongs in a museum. Styles of play other than orchestral classic are all too often regarded as nothing more than childish nonsense.
Despite the prevailing academic attitudes that I have witnessed and endured there appears to be a strong local demand for chalemeau and early baroque clarinets locally . When I discussed the issue of making folk imitations of them for my own use my local shop said make two of everything you do.Bring the second one here and prepare to take orders. They enjoyed my simple crudely made bamboo flutes and said that chalemeau and simple clarinets made to the same level of skill would fly off the shelf.

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