Klarinet Archive - Posting 001288.txt from 1997/08

From: pharmacy <pharmacy@-----.com>
Subj: [Fwd: Playskool?]
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:04:36 -0400

Nichelle A. Crocker wrote:
>
> >-Scott (who also "only" owns one clarinet: the Playskool "My First
> >Clarinet", made of durable, brightly-colored plastic, with the original
> >patented "perma-reed"!)
>
> Playskool? I thought those were made by Vito...
>
> Nichelle Crocker
> crockena@-----.edu

Actually Nichelle, a bit of history is required here. Vito had the
Playskool market for awhile, but when Buffet sales fell off from 1940
through 1992, they begged for the rights to the instrument, which then
became the Buffet Boo Boo Baby Booster Breezy Big Band Boomer, made of
course by their branch in Buffalo.
Carol