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Re: Louis & Cl clarinets

Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-07-23 10:49

Alan Hacker uses Louis clarinets in Bb and A on three tracks of his CD "Clarinet Collection". It's currently unavailable on UK Amazon, but you might be able to get a copy from Finchcocks.

The sleeve notes don't seem to agree with information on this site, nor elsewhere on the web.

IanH, and http://en.allexperts.com/q/Oboe-2282/2008/5/Louis-Oboe.htm, tell us that Louis of London were making oboes before WWI.

But Hacker's notes explain that Draper set up the company in London in 1923, giving it a French name because he thought that sounded better. No mention of them making oboes.

I wonder whether the pre-WWI Louis of oboes and the post-WWI Louis of clarinets are actually the same company; both were based in Chelsea, but maybe Draper just borrowed the name of a defunct company.

.........

Hacker's instruments were built at A=435, but have been sharpened to A=440.

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