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Robert Giardinelli (January 23, 1914, in Catania, Italy – October 1, 1996, in New York City, New York [1]) was a renowned musical instrument craftsman who operated a repair shop in New York City. After immigrating to the United States, Giardinelli served in the United States Army during World War II.
Musical instruments are designed to be played, they have moving parts that are intended to be used. The integrity of an instrument includes its sound, however, playing an instrument is inherently destructive and many times attempts to return instruments to playable condition mean modifying the original in ways that are not easily undone. [20]
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.
The film's producer, Jeremy Lambert, passed along an article on the Los Angeles Unified School District's 64-year-old instrument repair workshop. [ 6 ] The workshop, much smaller than Bowers had imagined when he was an LAUSD student, became the subject of the film, including profiles of four of the workshop's craftspeople.
In 1904 the company acquired Ets. D. Noblet, the oldest instrument manufacturer in France (established 1750). [3] In 1945, Léon Leblanc (1900–2000) met Vito Pascucci (1922–2003), then on duty as the instruments manager and repair technician for the Glenn Miller US Army Air Force Orchestra. Pascucci and Miller had discussed opening a ...
The clarinet is widely used as a solo instrument. The clarinet evolved later than other orchestral woodwind instruments, leaving solo repertoire from the Classical period onward, but few works from the Baroque era. Many clarinet concertos and clarinet sonatas have been written to showcase the instrument, for example those by Mozart and Weber. [95]
The word luthier is originally French and comes from luth, the French word for "lute".The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be used in French for makers of most bowed and plucked stringed instruments such as members of the violin family (including violas, cellos, and double basses) and guitars.
The clarinet was an inelegant instrument in the early 19th century despite the eight keys it had acquired. In 1812, Iwan Müller remodeled the instrument and raised the number of keys to 13. Other makers made small improvements to Müller's design, but the Boehm system clarinet represented the first complete redesign of the key system after ...