Re: Merlin's ax

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Not all Albert clarinets have that key that winds around to the front.  I think
that's specific to certain manufacturers.  The more telling characteristic is 
the
side keys, which often have rollers as on a saxophone: two per pinky, as opposed
to the redundancy of alternate keys on a Boehm.

TomP317 (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> This sounds like bragging but Merlin Shepherd once showed me his clarinet. It
> is indeed an Albert C and a thing of great beauty. Keys shaped like drops of
> mercury.
>
> I've spent a while looking at the picture of Naftuli Brandwein and wondered
> what instrument he's playing. It doesn't look like an Albert system - at
> least not like the one Andy Statman uses in his video - because it doesn't
> appear to have the loopy A button at the top. I'm very likely to be wrong
> about that. Surely it's a B flat - but could it be Boehme?
>
> Tom Payne
>

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Repair, Construction and Design of Musical Instruments

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