Basset Clarinet in A/Bb after Tauber/Lotz
(with knee joint and globular bell)
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£POA
Based on Viennese clarinets in A and Bb by Kaspar Tauber (1758 - 1831) in the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection and the illustration of Anton Stadler's basset clarinet in the Riga concert programme (1794). Measurements of the Tauber instruments were taken with kind permission from Edinburgh University.
To date there is only one known surviving clarinet (in Bb) by Theodor Lotz, who was an instrument maker for Anton Stadler and therefore connected to Mozart. Kaspar Tauber is known to have been an apprentice of Lotz and these clarinets by Tauber are very similar in design to the Bb instrument by Lotz. In the absence of a surviving clarinet in A by Lotz, the Tauber instruments seem like a good starting point to make a reconstruction of a Mozart basset clarinet in A (and Bb) based on the Riga programme drawing.
Viennese clarinets in this design are also available £POA
£POA
Based on Viennese clarinets in A and Bb by Kaspar Tauber (1758 - 1831) in the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection and the illustration of Anton Stadler's basset clarinet in the Riga concert programme (1794). Measurements of the Tauber instruments were taken with kind permission from Edinburgh University.
To date there is only one known surviving clarinet (in Bb) by Theodor Lotz, who was an instrument maker for Anton Stadler and therefore connected to Mozart. Kaspar Tauber is known to have been an apprentice of Lotz and these clarinets by Tauber are very similar in design to the Bb instrument by Lotz. In the absence of a surviving clarinet in A by Lotz, the Tauber instruments seem like a good starting point to make a reconstruction of a Mozart basset clarinet in A (and Bb) based on the Riga programme drawing.
Viennese clarinets in this design are also available £POA