Hello All and Happy New Year! (May the coming year bring less pain and suffering and more of the necessary strength to bear the inevitable...) The HIP movement...
Robert, I’ve just started reading a book that I think would interest you, and probably others on this list. It’s by Frans Vester, eminent Dutch flutist, ...
Bruce Haynes
Hauboy@...
Jan 1, 2005 9:20 pm
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Hi Bruce, Thank you for your note. I will be happy to look for this book, can you tell who is Saul Groen? It woud be intereresting to consider the history and...
... I'm not able to answer this question, but I just wanted to mention that Marx's article "Preliminary Report on the Baroque Oboe" which gives an account of...
When I got into the field in 1965 there were already several makers. I first bought a Püchner, on the advice of Ad Mater, and almost immediately afterwards he...
Bruce Haynes
Hauboy@...
Jan 4, 2005 4:12 pm
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Thanks for the flowers, Bruce. I'd like to add a little to your fine summary, though the information is thin. My first hautboy was an instrument I bought from...
P.Hailperin@...
Jan 5, 2005 10:07 am
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on 1/5/05 4:51 AM, P.Hailperin@... at P.Hailperin@... wrote: Then I got an instrument from Martiney, a reproduction of a Milhouse, a lovely...
Robert Howe
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Jan 5, 2005 11:18 am
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Bernhard Schermer was a maker for the Fehr recorder firm, and worked with Michel Piguet to build hautboys after a Christian Schlegel oboe from the Basel...
It seems like a lot of us played a Schermer Schlegel copy at one time or another. Oberlin had a lovely pearwood one that I played on as a student there and...
sarahsw@...
Jan 5, 2005 4:33 pm
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Hi all, I had a problem with my email (a 4-year old daughter with a heavy finger on the "delete" key, to be exact) and never received the lower message about ...
Robert Howe
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Jan 5, 2005 6:24 pm
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Grant Moore is the Michigan realtor, former maker. Jimmy Caldwell might have his details. Fred Fox...
Frederick Fox
foxoboe@...
Jan 5, 2005 6:43 pm
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Re: [hautboyresearch] First modern makersKorber used to make some - I know he made oboe d'amore at any rate. I remember owning one about thirty years ago. Jim...
Oops! It looks pretty much like you still have both Steve's message and mine. Harry Vas Dias doesn't do e-mail, but he'd love to tell you his story. At 84,...
sarahsw@...
Jan 5, 2005 6:59 pm
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Sarah, My records (such as they are.....) indicate that I made John¹s ³Schlegel² in 1979. For the record, I¹ve been making hautboys since 1976. Best,...
Sand & Tara Dalton
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Jan 5, 2005 9:06 pm
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I think the maker from Michigan (now selling real estate) was Grant Moore. I believe he was a former student of James Caldwell's, and so Oberlin has a couple...
Don't forget the Americans-in-England group of maker/players (or player/makers), I always thought a study of their works/origins/contributions/influence would...
mathdart@...
Jan 5, 2005 11:29 pm
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I remember seeing David Reichenberg for the last time on a trip to the US which included Ithaca, a year or two after I moved back there. He seemed pale and...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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Jan 6, 2005 12:42 am
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Dear Group, Another couple of additions to the "early modern" hautboy makers list: I have an example marked "ERNST STIEBER TÜBINGEN," which I long ago...
Herbert Myers
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Jan 6, 2005 2:53 am
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This is what a player of the d'amore had to say about the Korber d'amore I own. I sent it to see about getting reeds for it, and this is his assessment - I...
My first two-keyed oboe was a Koerber, which I bought used in 1973 -- it was very nicely made, blackwood with ivory trim and silver-colored keys. I tried to...
MessageAs a side note, I own at least one or two other Korber instrumens - a soprano rauschpfeiffe that is a very nice instrument. Jim ... From: Stephen Hammer...
AArgh, how could I forget Gail? Humble apol's. In a message dated 06/01/05 00:43:20 GMT Standard Time, mkirk7@......
mathdart@...
Jan 6, 2005 11:41 pm
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In a recent interview, the conductor Helmuth Rilling used the argument known as “Period ears.” Even if you could reproduce the same playing conditions, he...
Bruce Haynes
Hauboy@...
Jan 7, 2005 1:00 am
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Re: [hautboyresearch] First modern makersThis is all very interesting for me to think about. And it is startling to discovery how very little I know abut my...
P.Hailperin@...
Jan 7, 2005 12:37 pm
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Was the name by any chance Czermak? Greetings from Paul ... From: "debra nagy" <dhnagy@...> To: <hautboyresearch@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday,...
P.Hailperin@...
Jan 7, 2005 12:37 pm
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Ken, I certainly take your point. But to keep the historically record straight: Piguet and Schaeftlein both started at roughly the same time independantly of...
P.Hailperin@...
Jan 7, 2005 12:37 pm
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Paul, Thanks for sharing your memories with us. One of the things that got me excited about the hautboy back in the early 70¹s was hearing you and Shaeftlein...
Sand & Tara Dalton
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Jan 7, 2005 10:05 pm
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A little off-topic, but I wonder whether anyone here knows: What are "Klopfer" staples for modern oboe, and how do they differ in diameter and conicity from...