Author: Rezzie
Date: 2013-11-19 02:27
So, I'm sitting at rehearsal tonight and a young lady in our wind ensemble pulls out a clarinet wrapped in a towel in a bag and says "I can't find anything out about this...". Things like this happen when word gets out that you're interested in old horns. Apparently someone in her husband's family found it in some effects of a deceased relative.
It was a simple Albert system A clarinet - the marque was O.Bauer Chicago 1906, no visible cracks, and according to her "it plays some - it has a really 'dark' sound, too." I noted an 'L.' mark on the top and bottom joint (low pitch?), and a mark of 'A' as well to indicate this was an A rather than a Bb. The middle joint was bound by wrapped string, rather than cork (really, really, really loosely) which would be consistent with practice for Albert clarinets of that era.
No, I don't have any pictures - not yet, anyway.
We huddled over it, and I offered to see if I could find out more. I see a couple of references to O. Bauer in some collections of historic instruments, but not much else. Anybody else have any scoop on her find? I'll see if I can pull together some pix, but that'll be at least next week.
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