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Re: Roma Clarinet

Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-10-27 13:10

I was in Romania for a couple of weeks recently and happened to listen to a CD by a guy called Erno Kallai Kiss. Whether this was "authentic" Gypsy/Roma music or the local equivalent of Kenny G I'm not sure! It was reminiscent of the music I used to hear in restaurants in Budapest when I worked there in 1993, though they didn't use clarinets. I remember being told at the time that the so-called Gypsy bands were no such thing.

The picture on the CD leaflet looked to me like a pretty standard German clarinet. Only the left-hand keywork was visible, so I couldn't tell whether it was a full Oehler (with a plate for the middle finger of the right hand) or another German system. But it was certainly not a simple/Albert system in the correct sense of that term; it had far too much keywork for the left hand.

I assumed it was a Bb - it didn't look unusually big, though I didn't really think about that aspect at the time.

This is the picture, for what it's worth:

http://www.amazon.com/Gypsy-King-Clarinet-Kallai-Kiss/dp/B00000303M

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To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.

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