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Clarinets in France

Author: beejay
Date: 2010-09-13 15:16

Francophone clarinet fanatics might be interested in following site upon which I stumbled. All in French, but it covers a lot of ground.

<http://clariboles-et-cie.blogspot.com/>

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Re: Clarinets in France

Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-09-13 15:33

I've been looking for this photo of Debussy resting on a bass clarinet for ages! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2M-M7MU2BWw/S_T0Y19vpHI/AAAAAAAABmA/05MIvaKCxBc/s1600/Debussy_clarBasse_DR.jpg

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Re: Clarinets in France

Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2010-09-13 15:39

That is one fantastic photo!

Can anyone name the make and model of the bass clarinet?

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Re: Clarinets in France

Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2010-09-13 16:21

From the caption under the picture (roughly translated):

"The instrument shown in this photograph - low clarinet simple system or Albert, probably a Belgian model of Mahillon - is not representative of the instrument orchestras used at that time in France."

Best regards,
jnk

Post Edited (2010-09-13 16:22)

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Re: Clarinets in France

Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2010-09-13 16:45

Wow. It's obviously one of the most symbolic and important pictures of Claude Debussy ever taken. There he sits, confidently--nay, boldly!--resting on an Albert system bass clarinet.

Note the serious expression, the knowing look.

It's as though he wanted to communicate with us, in the eloquence of an image... "Here I sit, flouting the establishment." GIVE IT TO 'EM, CLAUDE!

Anyone gotta picture of Poulenc with an Oehler system?!

[Thanks for the translation, Jack!]

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