Klarinet Archive - Posting 000642.txt from 1998/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Silver Plated Clarinets
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:23:44 -0400

At 10:50 PM 10/13/98 -0500, Jim 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.
>
Noblet would be a good choice. I've seen some school-owned ones that
looked pretty decent. Conn or, better yet, Pan-American would be
believable. My own is a Walter W. Mueller "The Empire State," possibly a
bit TOO esoteric.

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