Klarinet Archive - Posting 000289.txt from 1998/05

From: "Jason Hsien" <jasonavhs@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Need some info on a clarinet
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:54:28 -0400

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From: Barb073 <Barb073@-----.com>

|Can anyone out there help me out with some info on a rather unusual
clarinet?
|The subject is a Holton "Collegiate", ser. #269244, made of wood(?), key of
|Bb. An interesting aspect is that the upper and lower joints are made in
one
|piece.
|
|Are these instruments still being made? Is this a beginner, intermediate,
or
|pro horn? (I thought Holton made only brass instruments.) What do we have
|here?

My best guess would be that it is a beginner/intermdiate clarinet made by
LeBlanc, who holds the trademarks to LeBlanc, Vito and Holton. Occasionally,
LeBlanc, for some reason or another, takes some of it's Vito models and
markets them as Holtons, with the Holton insignia, despite both the Vito and
the Holton's being exactly the same. (examples: Vito7213=HoltonCL614 ;
Vito7165=HoltonAC602)

Though I have never heard of a wooden Holton before, I have heard of a
wooden Vito (or actually a VITOFrance) before, and they are considered
"midline" or lower intermediate instruments.

Hope this helps

-jason

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