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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-02-01 16:43
Does anyone know anything about an early 20th century French clarinet player named Loye? (I don't know his first name.) In July of 1921, he lived in the Rue D'Asse in Paris. That month, he bought a pair of Buffet clarinets in Bb and in A, with a double case and some other equipment, at the Evette & Schaeffer store in Paris. Google turned up nothing relevant. TIA!
Lelia
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-02-01 17:57
Perhaps, Lelia, I made an AOL [Enhanced by Google] Search for "Loye/clarinet" and found several ref's? to CDs, Ravel etc, finding several ?FR? spellings , Ma Mere L'Oye among them. I suggest trying the AOL search, who knows, it may have more than ?basic? Google. Luck, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2008-02-01 21:25
Loye is a surname. Perhaps you mean Loys? This is a first name.
http://www.jazzlinkenterprises.com/birthdays/birthdays_october.html
No.11
Could this be him?
Steve
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2008-02-01 21:29
stevensfo wrote:
> Loye is a surname. Perhaps you mean Loys? This is a first
> name.
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> http://www.jazzlinkenterprises.com/birthdays/birthdays_october.html
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> No.11
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> Could this be him?
Not unless it was a very precocious 1 year old buying that clarinet ...
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2008-02-02 10:51
--"Not unless it was a very precocious 1 year old buying that clarinet ..."
That reminds me about an old joke:
Three young french boys walking down a street.
A. (10 yrs old) "Regardez! Zer iz a man and woman in zat room ..wrestling!"
B. (11 yrs old) "Zut alors! Zey are not wrestling. Zey are making love!"
C. (12 yrs old - rolls his eyes) "Yes, and very badly!"
Steve
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-02-02 13:51
LOL! I should have explained more fully. For one thing, I mistyped the address. Monsieur Loye lived in the Rue d'Assas (not Rue d'Asse). I found his name and address typed on the original 1921 receipt that came with the pair of clarinets. (No first name, but I know Loye was his last name and he was male because the receipt spells out, "Monsieur Loye.") I think he may have been a professional musician or a high-level amateur, because he took unusually good care of his instruments and made thoughtful purchases of the various doodads. The pads and corks are completely age-deteriorated and it's clear nobody's played these clarinets in decades, but except for a small, repairable crack in one tenon socket, there's nothing else seriously wrong with either instrument.
Don, thank you--Google did turn up the references to the Ravel music, and someone on the Klarinet e-mail list also referred me to it--but I don't think M. Loye's mother was Mother Goose. Still, as Satchmo sez, "One never knows, do one?"
I'm asking the auctioneer to give my contact information to the consigner and I'm hoping he or she will get in touch with me. Unfortunately, I just got word of a family emergency last night, and so unless the emergency turns out to be a false alarm (I'll know by later today), this small mystery about M. Loye will have to wait. I'll almost certainly need to get on a plane within the next day or so, and will not have Internet access from my parents' house. I don't know how long I'll need to be gone. Therefore please forgive me if I delay answering on this thread--and thank you for the responses.
Lelia
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