Klarinet Archive - Posting 000582.txt from 2000/01

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Good Middle School Bass Clarinet?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:59:21 -0500

At 06:38 PM 1/17/00 -0500, you wrote:

>The design of the Selmer/Bundy bass clarinets (and soprano and alto ones,
>too, for that matter) has not changed substantially in eons, with the
>exception of the neck. The new ones have a change of angle, similar to the
>Bay necks. Other than that, only the logo has been changed, since Selmer
>USA has decided to kill the "Bundy" name. (Nobody remembers who George
>Bundy was anymore. He was apparently a good sax/woodwind player, but, more
>importantly, founded Selmer USA to import Selmer Paris instruments.)

Which began Selmers made here, I assume, which begat a great God Forbid
when it comes to those nasty rumors.

>Incidentally, my bari sax, an old King Zephyr, began its obviously hard
>life as a school horn, too.

Speaking of old saxes, my girlfriend's kid got picked for the jazz band in
his middle school, and they told him to go home and learn to play tenor
sax. They gave him one of the school horns, an old but very elaborately
carved looking thing with half the laquer worn off and the springs in
questionable shape. I asked him what kind it was and he made out
"Evette-Schaefer" in the bell. Is this what turned into the lower-priced
end of Buffet or was it a separate concern? I didn't think to ask him for
the serial number to get some idea of how old it might be.

Ken

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