Klarinet Archive - Posting 000292.txt from 1998/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Need some info on a clarinet
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:54:31 -0400

At 11:33 PM 5/6/98 -0700, Jason Hsien wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>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)
>
My presumption is that this is an older instrument, probably from before
Leblanc bought out Holton, although I have also seen some "HoltoVitos" out
there. Making the two joints as one piece, while more difficult, offers
certain advantages, chief among these the ability to place the C#/Ab left
pinky key in a more acoustically correct location, instead of the
compromise position forced by the break in the middle. Try a Rossi
sometime to see what can be done. It is more comfortable to hit the key,
too, if designed right. But there's no place to attach your lyre for
marching band! Anyway, the "Collegiate" line, as you might expect, is
basically a student line, although I suspect that yours is an upper level
student model.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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