Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 1995/04

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Instruments for sale
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 15:27:10 -0400

I want you all to know that this list proved very helpful to me
in selling two instruments about which I posted a note about two
weeks ago. The instruments were an original 1805 C clarinet in
5 keys, and a contemporary Buffet basset horn which turned out
to be a magnificent instrument when I finally got around to playing
it. When I reported back to the owner of the instruments that it
was very likely that I would sell them at the price requested, that
party came out of the woodwork with a bunch of other that s/he wishes
me to mention on this list, though some of them are sufficiently
peculiar that only the collector is going to evidence interest in them.

1) a pair of Penzel Mueller clarinets in A and B-flat in a Baermann
System. This system precedes the Albert system. Both are wood. A
case is included and both are said to be in playable condition. The
A, strangely enough, was made in the late 1950s. The B-flat is much
older. When the current owner showed the B-flat to the people at
the Penzell Mueller factory in Boston in the 1950s, they said that they
had parts hanging around to make an A if the party was interested. The
party was, so we have the pair. Price on request.

2) A Conn C clarinet in a material that appears to be hard rubber but
I am not sure. It is an Albert system clarinet dating from ca. 1890
and comes without case. Price is very reasonable and available on
request.

3) A Henry Gunckel, low pitch, Paris, wood, Albert system, E-flat
clarinet, with mouthpiece made ca. 1900. Comes with case. Price is
very reasonable. Price on request.

4) Another basset horn, brand new, Selmer, from ca. 1963, narrow bore,
standard clarinet mouthpiece. I have not played on this instrument
but the owner says that the throat tone B-flat is a poor note. That
is very typical of Selmer basset horns, both of mine having lousy
throat tone B-flats. I play them all on the side. This basset horn
was the companion to the Buffet I sold for the owning party and, because
this person had two, very rarely played the Selmer, so good was the Buffet.
I cannot comment on the quality of the Selmer instrument since I have never
played it. The price is not trivial but not horrendous either. Price on
request.

Dan Leeson

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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