This clarinet in C was made at the STENGEL workshop in Bayreuth, Germany. We think it was made around 1850-1860 by Johann Simon STENGEL (1803-1885). It features 12 brass keys mounted on nicely selected boxwood. The rings are also made of brass. All parts feature the maker’s stamp. This instrument...
This wonderful grenadilla clarinet with fifteen brass keys was made by Hermann SAUERHERING (1840-1909) sometime around 1890. Magdeburg Old Market end 19th century Hermann Sauerhering was born in a town called Rogätz – about 30 km north of Magdeburg, Germany. He was a woodwind instrument maker and instrument dealer. In 1875, he...
This C clarinet was made by the Bavarian and Munich-based master instrument maker, Benedict PENTENRIEDER (1809-1849). Pentenrieder’s life story and that of his immediate family are quite sad ones. He lived a very short life… dying at the age of just 40. He worked at the same time and location...
This A clarinet was made by the Bavarian and Munich-based master instrument maker, Benedict PENTENRIEDER (1809-1849). Pentenrieder’s life story and that of his immediate family are quite sad ones. He lived a very short life… dying at the age of just 40. He worked at the same time and location...
This extremely rare instrument was made at the famous STENGEL workshop in Bayreuth, Germany by the woodwind master Johann Simon STENGEL (1803-1885) A similar instrument can be found in the Sir Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006) collection at Edinburgh University. This particular instrument could even be earlier than the one...
Here we have a stunning contrabass clarinet made by the firm Prof. Romeo Orsi. Born in Como, Italy, Romeo ORSI (1843-1918), was a prestigious clarinettist at the Milan La Scala opera house and clarinet teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Milan. He started a business partnership with the woodwind instrument...
Joseph-René LAFLEUR (1812-1874) was considered to be one of the best bow makers in Paris where he had a music shop. Among his clientele was the French violinist, conductor and composer, Jules Prudence RIVIÈRE (1819-1900), who had settled in London in 1857 and fortunately for Joseph-René had learned to speak...
Here we have a wonderful E-flat clarinet, crafted in grenadilla with nickel silver rings and fifteen nickel silver keys. It was made in around the 1920s by Joseph/Josef PÖSCHL (1866-1947). Joseph Pöschl was born in Graslitz, today’s Kraslice in the Czech Republic. He appears in the Munich address books in 1894...
This lovely bass clarinet is crafted in grenadilla and nickel silver. This bass clarinet was made by Maino & Orsi. It is a simple (Albert) system clarinet with two independent speakers. The company Maino & Orsi was the fruit of a collaboration and partnership between Paolo MAINO (?-1881) and Romeo ORSI...
This antique B-flat clarinet was made around the beginning of the nineteenth century in Alfeld, which lies on the Leine river in Lower Saxony, Germany. The literature (Hart in the Langwill index) tells us that G. Bock’s instruments were similar to those produced by the STREITWOLF workshop in Gottingen. So, G....
