• Koch recorders

    From scemc@earthlink.net@21:1/5 to Jack Campin - bogus address on Wed Aug 17 19:30:36 2016
    On Monday, March 15, 2010 at 4:01:45 AM UTC-7, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
    I have just acquired a Koch treble recorder from EBay. From what
    I can see on the web, Koch (the father) was the pioneering maker
    of recorders in the US, and his son carried on till about 1970 or
    so. There's nothing to identify the date - just "Koch" marked on
    the block (of all places). Made of cocobolo, I believe. It's a
    remarkable instrument, brilliant and powerful, worth far more (to
    me, anyway) than I paid for it.

    But there is an oddity of the design I don't get. The mid-section
    to foot-section joint is corked as normal. The head to midsection
    joint is bare wood against wood - the most virtuosic piece of turning
    I've ever seen (I suppose cocobolo is so hard and stable you can get
    away with treating it like metal). But the tenon goes twice as far
    into the head than normal - there is a lower wider-bore part that
    clears the midsection tenon by about a millimetre all round.

    Why? One guess I had was that you could put some sort of sleeve in
    to convert it to A=415, but that would be so far out of tune as to
    be musically useless, surely? Or am I missing a corps de rechange?

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 <http://www.campin.me.uk> Twitter: JackCampin

    If any Koch recorders are available for sale, I would love to know.

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  • From kplmstr1@mac.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 1 18:53:35 2016
    I have a complete set of Koch recorders from the '50's: tenor, in c; alto, in f; soprano, in c:, and sopranino in F. I bought the alto in 1958, and the rest in the early 60's. I have a fitted hard-size case for them, custom made. They are pitched at
    A-440. I'm interested in selling, if you desire. I recently used the alto to play Brandenburg 4 with a professional orchestra.
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    e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k
    Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 <http://www.campin.me.uk> Twitter: JackCampin

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  • From daiterj@gmail.com@21:1/5 to kplm...@mac.com on Tue Aug 15 07:00:38 2017
    On Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 9:53:36 PM UTC-4, kplm...@mac.com wrote:
    I have a complete set of Koch recorders from the '50's: tenor, in c; alto, in f; soprano, in c:, and sopranino in F. I bought the alto in 1958, and the rest in the early 60's. I have a fitted hard-size case for them, custom made. They are pitched
    at A-440. I'm interested in selling, if you desire. I recently used the alto to play Brandenburg 4 with a professional orchestra.
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    e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k
    Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland
    mobile 07800 739 557 <http://www.campin.me.uk> Twitter: JackCampin

    Do you still have these for sale?

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  • From garybodman@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 26 05:53:28 2017
    I have a soprano in rosewood, in the box, like new

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  • From adzilla88@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 12:56:57 2019
    My wife has acquired several recorder including a Koch. As well as several old MOECK Gothenburg Rottenburgh. We know nothing about them.

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