Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-06-28 23:48
I have an Angel LP of the l'ORTF woodwind quintet with Robert Cliquenois on clarinet playing Hindemith, Ibert, and Milhaud.
Getting back to the original question, on this board, Roger Aldridge on May 4, 2006 (in the thread "Is an o/haul for a Couesnon worth it") praised his 1960 Cousenon Monopole as an instrument with "a special kind of personality and character rather than ... a clone of what others are using." He noted that his repair tech judged the wood better than what one finds on later instruments and measured the bore diameter at BOTH ends of the upper joint at "exactly .580." In a later post on April 14, 2007 ("Most Undervalued Clarinet Today") Aldridge adds that he bought a second Monopole made in the 1970s and he and his tech found it tuned well and was a fine instrument.
Couesnon clarinets go back a long time. I've seen Albert system Couesnons dated around 1898 and some Boehms from 1910 or so. They even made a very handsome looking double wall metal Boehm clarinet. Haynes flutes made a few clarinets of this type, and so did Selmer. Any idea who made the first double wall metal clarinet?
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