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The Silva-Bet, which debuted in 1925, is generally acknowledged to have been the first successful metal clarinet. [1] [2] Shortly after the appearance of the Silva-Bet, other woodwind makers entered the metal clarinet market, including Selmer Paris in 1927 [3] with their Master Model as well as American companies Buescher with their True Tone model and H. N. White with the Silver King.
After the war, Polatschek was given a temporary teaching assignment at the Academy of Music, which had been renamed "Akademie" in the meantime, and on 1 September 1921 he was officially appointed professor of clarinet there. Among his most important students were Rudolf Jettel, Leopold Wlach and Alfred Boskovsky. In the same year he married ...
Henri Selmer Paris is a French enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based at Mantes-la-Ville near Paris.Founded in 1885, it is known as a producer of professional-grade woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets.
Read on to find more of the world’s most expensive items, from artwork to domain names to a preserved dead shark. 15. Heintzman Crystal Piano — $3.2 Million
Upon the United States' entry into the Second World War, Miller's patriotism spurred him to disband his civilian band at the peak of its success and enlist in the Army Air Force. Despite repeated entreaties from Miller, Wil initially struck out on his own as a sideman, but sensing the inevitable, eventually enlisted in the Merchant Marines.
From the 1940s on, while teaching and playing, Hite also worked continuously on the development of a superior clarinet mouthpiece. With his second wife Jean Hite he founded the J&D Hite Mouthpiece Company in the 1980s. He was internationally recognized for his hand-finished J & D Hite clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces. The David Hite, and ...
Priced at: $1.5 million. Inspired by German astronomer and mathematician, Johannes Kepler, this Montblanc pen is encrusted with 5,294 sapphires and 570 diamonds to evoke the mystery and beauty of ...
Fritz Wurlitzer in his workshop in the 1970s Fritz Wurlitzer Double Bass Clarinet. Fritz Ulrich Wurlitzer (21 December 1888 – 5 or 9 April 1984) was a German clarinet maker, based in Erlbach in Vogtland, Saxony. He developed the Reform Boehm clarinet and made improvements to the Schmidt-Kolbe clarinet [1] and the German bass clarinet. [2]