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In 2000 clarinetist and entrepreneur Morrie Backun opened a small repair shop for woodwind instruments with two employees. After having been commissioned by J. Wesley (Wes) Foster, Principal Clarinet of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to overhaul one of his clarinets, Backun was unable to complete the project, as the original barrel of the instrument was missing.
Ethical codes state that the aesthetic, historic and physical integrity of an object must to be respected. Often returning an instrument to playable condition requires modifications that cannot be readily undone, and removing unserviceable parts may also mean removing important historical evidence, such as original tool marks.
Around 1917 C.G. Conn introduced drawn tone holes (after a patent by W.S. Haynes in 1914) eliminating the necessity of soft-soldering tone hole platforms onto the bodies of the instruments. Around 1920 C. G. Conn introduced rolled tone hole rims, a feature that enhanced the seal of the pads and extended pad life. Rolled tone holes remained a ...
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Basset clarinet, oboe d'amore, piccolo trumpet Euphonium Baritone saxophone Buffet Crampon SAS is a French manufacturer of wind instruments based in Mantes-la-Ville , Yvelines department . The company is the world market leader in the production of clarinets of the Boehm system .
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Michael Lowenstern (born August 23, 1968) is an American musician, composer and educator, specializing in bass clarinet.He is well known for his YouTube channel Earspasm [1] and for his many recordings featuring the bass clarinet as a solo instrument in classical, jazz, and electronica formats.
From the 1940s on, while teaching and playing, Hite also worked continuously on the development of a superior clarinet mouthpiece. With his second wife Jean Hite he founded the J&D Hite Mouthpiece Company in the 1980s. He was internationally recognized for his hand-finished J & D Hite clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces. The David Hite, and ...