Author: MichaelW
Date: 2020-01-13 22:55
I've never seen a clarinet with at least three different components (the bell isn't mentioned) which besides gives some hints on recent European history (sorry my English isn't quite up to it). Some pictures would be welcome:
E.J. Albert, until the 1930ties, was the biggest Belgian manufacturer with a quite extensive (and problematic, see New Langwill index) family history. The „Albert“ („Simple“) system was only one of their achievements.
Adler & Co, Markneukirchen, Germany had a long history as a family owned factory, was after the war nationalized by the GDR communist regime, then went to Boosey & Hawkes and now belongs to Gebr. Mönnig & Adler, a branch of Buffet- Crampon, owned by an investment company. This instrument is also marked „ Louis de Leeuw Zwolle“, as far as I can see, a Dutch-Jewish instrument merchant in Zwolle, Netherlands, who was killed in Auschwitz 1943 with about 20 of his name.
Kohlert & Co. , Winnenden, then West Germany, was re- founded in 1946 by members of the Kohlert family who had owned the biggest wind instrument factory in Graslitz, former Bohemia, Austro- Hungarian empire, then, after WW I, Kraslicze, Czecho-Slovak republic. After WW II they were expelled and their factory nationalized and named „Amati“. The Kohlert shop in Winnenden went bankrupt in the 1960ties.
Such a mixed instrument won't be much worth, but please hold it in honor for its history.
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