Klarinet Archive - Posting 000584.txt from 1998/10

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Silver Plated Clarinets
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:55:03 -0400

I don't know how "good" they were but the Holton "Collegiate" and the King
"American Standard" were both fairly common. (I started on a metal clarinet
about that time and I wish I could remember who made it but I can't and it's
long gone -- I made the mistake of leaving it at home one year when I was a
college and my mom loaned it to a cousin who's son was starting music lessons
in school. When their family moved from Pennsylvania to Texas, they took it
with them and eventually sold it. Someday I may forgive them... Maybe...
Nah!)

Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
St. Louis

James P Reed wrote:

> If a child starting to play a clarinet was to have gotten a used silver
> plated or metal clarinet in 1957 or 1958, what would the good models
> have been? And, do you have any ideas of what they would have cost
> used?
>
> This may seem a little esoteric but I'm making my first foray into
> fiction (outside of the fictions I've lived) and it's a trivial detail
> I'd like to accurately build in for my main character.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions and comments.
>
> Jim Reed
>
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