instruments

(…for composers and other curious souls)

‘modern’ clarinets

  • clarinet in Eb (Leblanc)
  • clarinet in C (Leblanc)
  • clarinet in Bb (Buffet Festival)
  • clarinet in A (Buffet Festival)
  • ‘full-Boehm’ clarinet in Bb (Leblanc)
  • ‘full-Boehm’ clarinet in A (Buffet R13)
  • German-system (full-Oehler) clarinets in Bb and A (F. A. Uebel)
  • basset clarinet in A (Leblanc)
  • basset horn (Buffet)
  • bass clarinet (Buffet)
  • contrabass clarinet (Leblanc)
 (in Ensemble Musikfabrik concerts or elsewhere you might also see me playing the Musikfabrik contrabass clarinet, which is by Benedikt Eppelsheim)

saxophones

(I’m not a ‘real’ saxophonist but these come in handy for doubling parts)

  • soprano – Selmer Série II
  • alto – Selmer Série II
  • tenor – Conn New Wonder (ca 1919)

historical instruments

  • chalumeaus1 (all at a’=415)
    • soprano (in f’) – one by Guntram Wolf, one by Andreas Schöni with ‘d’amore’ foot to e’
    • alto (in c’) – by Agnès Guéroult
    • tenor (in f) – by Agnès Guéroult
    • bass (in c) – by Andreas Schöni
    • basson de chalumeau (in F, with thumb keys down to B’b) by Andreas Schöni

  • historical clarinets
    • at a’=415:
      • 2-key clarinet in F by Jochen Seggelke after Scherer
      • 2-key clarinet in D by Jochen Seggelke after Jakob Denner
      • 3-key clarinet in D by Agnès Guéroult after Scherer
    • at a’=430:
      • 7-key clarinet in C by Jochen Seggelke after Bühner und Keller (Strasbourg)
      • 5-key clarinet in Bb by Peter van der Poel after Lotz
      • 12-key clarinet in Bb by Joel Robinson after H. Grenser (with corps de rechange for 5-key setup)
      • 5-key clarinet in A by Peter van der Poel after Lotz
      • 9-key basset clarinet in A by Peter van der Poel after Lotz
    • at a’=440 or a little higher if I push all the joints in:
      • 13-key clarinet in Eb by Lefèvre, ca 1830
        …some pictures and sound to come.

I also have some quite nice recorders at a’=440. I use them for improvisations and free scores; for doubling parts (for example in Richard Barrett’s Opening of the Mouth); and for tootling Handel, Graupner and Telemann purely for my own amusement.

  • garklein – Küng, grenadilla
  • sopranino – Moeck after Rottenburgh, grenadilla
  • soprano – Mollenhauer after Denner, boxwood
  • alto – Mollenhauer after Denner, grenadilla
  • tenor – Yamaha, surprisingly respectable plastic
  • bass – Zen-On, maple
  1. the standard plural is of course the French one. I don’t see any more
 reason to write ‘chalumeaux’ than to write ‘bureaux’, though.
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