That’s My Home – Mr Acker Bilk (1961)

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An individual, limited edition, example of vinyl art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single featuring the  record, That’s My Home by Mr. Acker Bilk. The record was released in 1961, on the Columbia record label and has been reworked into the silhouette of  Mr. Acker Bilk playing his clarinet.

A great framed gift for a friend or family member who is a fan of Acker Bilk, Easy Listening Jazz, 60’s Music, The Clarinet, Instrumentals or has a special memory linked to the song.

Presented in a black wooden box frame
Limited Edition of 100, signed and numbered by myself, the artist

Title: That’s My Home
Media Artist/s: Mr. Acker Bilk
Record Label: Columbia
Medium: Mixed media, hand cut from an original 7″ vinyl single
Era: 1960s
Genre: Jazz / Easy Listening

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Additional information about this Mr. Acker Bilk vinyl art.

Mr. Acker Bilk – The Artist

Bernard Stanley Bilk, MBE (1929 – 2014), known professionally as Acker Bilk, was a British clarinettist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat.
Bilk’s 1962 instrumental tune “Stranger on the Shore” became the UK’s biggest selling single of 1962. It spent more than 50 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number two, and was the second No. 1 single in the United States by a British artist.

That’s My Home – The Song

“Thats My Home” is a piece for clarinet written by L.Rena, O Rena and D Ellison it is performed by Mr. Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band.

The Clarinet Player – The Shape

This record has been cut into the bowler hatted Acker Bilk playing his clarinet. The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist (sometimes spelled clarinettist). While the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may hold a clue to its name, other factors may have been involved. During the Late Baroque era, composers such as Bach and Handel were making new demands on the skills of their trumpeters, who were often required to play difficult melodic passages in the high, or as it came to be called, clarion register. Since the trumpets of this time had no valves or pistons, melodic passages would often require the use of the highest part of the trumpet’s range, where the harmonics were close enough together to produce scales of adjacent notes as opposed to the gapped scales or arpeggios of the lower register. The trumpet parts that required this specialty were known by the term clarino and this in turn came to apply to the musicians themselves. It is probable that the term clarinet may stem from the diminutive version of the ‘clarion’ or ‘clarino’ and it has been suggested that clarino players may have helped themselves out by playing particularly difficult passages on these newly developed “mock trumpets”

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Weight 1030 g
Dimensions 25 × 4.5 × 25 cm
Artist Formation

Solo Artist

Decade

60's

Gender

Male

Nationality

English

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