Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Some old clarinet parts
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:03:22 -0500

Would this be the same Martin whose name appears with a Buffet-type dashed
circle on my 14 key A clarinet (boxwood)....Circa 1840?

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Roger Shilcock wrote:

> "Martin" suggests "Martin freres", a formerly well-known French
> manufacturer. Green suggests you've got an old ebonite instrument. These
> were made ostensibly for use in the tropics where wood might suffer, and
> normally have stainless steel keywork, as copper alloys would blacken
> rapidly with the sulphur in the rubber.
> Roger Shilcock
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> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Cox, Graeme wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:26:52 +1300
> > From: "Cox, Graeme" <Graeme.Cox@-----.nz>
> > Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> > To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> > Subject: [kl] Some old clarinet parts
> >
> > Hi Klarinetters,
> >
> > I have just bought a very scruffy old clarinet which looks rather like parts
> > assembled from several old horns. I wonder if anyone can help my identify
> > them...
> >
> > 1. Main joints wood stamped 319092 with no obvious maker name.
> > 2. Selmer Paris C* mouthpiece. (No problem with that!)
> > 3. Bell from Boosey & Hawkes Regent. (No problem there either)
> > 4. Barrel green and not wood with the name Martin .... faintly visible.
> > 5. Case marked Cheney England with fragments of an old label that could be
> > Selmer.
> >
> > Any ideas anyone, especially the two main joints.
> >
> > Hopefully,
> > Graeme Cox
> > Christchurch, New Zealand
> > Graeme.Cox@-----.nz
> >
> >
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