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Author: Tom Quick
Date: 2000-01-29 14:25
I've been playing on this horn for the last 25 years - RK trademark stamped on the body, with Rich Kelwerth underneath along with some undecipherable German in small gilt letters. Looks to be 50's or 60's manufacture. Does this company still exist? Who were/are they?
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Author: Tom Quick
Date: 2000-01-29 14:40
Could be Keilworth....the gilt is pretty messy....like the quality of a tombstone rubbing.
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Author: Hans
Date: 2000-01-29 15:01
Richard Keilwerth (RK) is a known firm in Germany. They still make soprano clarinets (A,B,C and E-flatin german system and boehm system), jazz clarinets, flutes, piccolos and saxophones.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-01-29 15:09
Keilworth is known for saxes worldwide; clarinets I've never seen, but as Hans noted, they do make them.
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Author: Arnold the basset hornist
Date: 2000-02-01 06:16
Don't get confused.
There are two Keilwerth companies in Germany, <a href=http://www.keilwerth.de/>Richard Keilwerth</a> (primary clarinets) at Gelnhausen and <a href=http://www.boosey.com/mi/keilwerth.html>Julius Keilwerth> (saxophones) at Nauheim.
Arnold, the basset hornist
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-02-01 12:21
Arnold,
The Keilwerth workshop was started by Johann Baptiste (b. c1873, d1945) in 1920 (Graslitz) and started specializing in saxes in 1925. He was joined by his sons Julius (d 1962) and Richard (b c1906);the company was expropriated in 1945.
Richard relocated in Gelnhausen/Hessen; Julius in Nauheim.
(from The New Langwill Index)
I've never seen or heard of a Keilwerth clarinet; they must be very low volume.
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Author: Arnold the basset hornist
Date: 2000-02-01 15:41
Mark wrote:
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I've never seen or heard of a Keilwerth clarinet; they must be very low volume.
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Well,
Richard Keilwerth Oehler system clarinets are quite popular in Germany. I do not know whether their boehm system horns are sold often or not - I quess not very often.
Nevertheless, I own a Number 7 A instrument, too. (You may view it on a photo of my basset horn stand here on sneezy's upload section.)
By the way, the town Grasliz (German spelling) today is Kraslice (Czech spelling), the village where the AMATI-Dekak factory is located.
Arnold, the basset hornist
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-02-01 18:48
Richard Keilwerth Oehler system clarinets are quite popular in Germany. I do not know whether their boehm system horns are sold often or not - I quess not very often.
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However, we hear of Hammershmidt & Wurlizter quite often, even though they're not (normally) Boehm system. That's what I compare them to.
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Author: Hans
Date: 2000-02-01 19:40
For anyone who is interested in the sound of their top line model (full Oehler, no 7c), i would recommend the CD with the soloists Don & Cindy Christensen with the Radio Wind Orchestra Leipzig (nice repertoire e.g. the Concertante for two clarinets Op. 35 of Krommer (1759-1831) in an original arrangement of B. Crusell (1775-1838)!
Label: Koch Schwann, no.: 3-1067-2 (recording of 1991)
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Author: Tom Quick
Date: 2000-02-05 06:41
If anyone other than me is still looking at this, the e flat is a boehm system Richard Keilwerth. RK's current catalog does not show boehm e flats anymore, though they do make oehler system. So I guess its just an old oddball. I had to make some barrels for it to get it to play in tune, and had an old Woodwind mouthpiece recut to 1.13mm by Rick Sayre to use with it.
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