
Quite unusual and annoying, but I’ll get used to it. Six months after my preferred model showed up on eBay.

I had to replace it with a Buffet to get it in tune. Chris Burke sold it to us with a barrel way too short. A great friend of mine and sponsor to several of my clarinets, Mogens Møller Jensen bought it for me in New Orleans. According to the serial number, it should have been made at the beginning of the 1940s. A powerful clarinet made by German immigrants in New York. I got it shortly after my first recording of George Lewis, came as a set of A and Bb. But it was cheap!!! My first Albert clarinet.

I couldn’t throw it away, so I made a lamp out of it. Gave it an overhaul to find out it’s tuned in B natural (didn’t know about “high pitch” back then). Bought it cheap in miserable condition on a market. Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy & Cie, simple system, probably beginning of 20th century. Perhaps tell a story or two – From left to right: I will try to describe my clarinets here. The clarinets I use(d): Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy & Cie No Name Penzel Müller Buffet Crampon Selmer K3488 Selmer M1900 Selmer K6164 Selmer M8940 Pedler Premiere Forté Eb
