Klarinet Archive - Posting 000373.txt from 1996/08

From: "Fogle, Bill" <bill.fogle@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Boosey buys Rico
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:43:46 -0400

Daniel wrote about B&H buying Rico.

>Boosey & Hawkes (owner of Buffet) has just made public their purchase of
>Rico (Hemke, Mitchell Lurie, Rico Royal, LaVoz, Grand Concert plus several
>other brands). . . . My understanding is that the business will be run as
usual,
>with no major changes . . . One exception: a few "super reed"
>projects may be introduced into the market within the next year.

I was pretty amazed to discover, in the case with an old clarinet I bought,
several
reeds marked "B&H". I didn't know Boosey ever made reeds. I guess they
supplied
a range of products to clarinetists when they were doing their own-name
manufacturing. ----Bill Fogle.