Klarinet Archive - Posting 000590.txt from 2000/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Good Middle School Bass Clarinet?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:34:12 -0500

At 06:59 PM 1/17/2000 -0500, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>At 06:38 PM 1/17/00 -0500, Bill Hausmann 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.
>
Well, yes, they did move into making thir own horns, and even buying some
stencil jobs under the Selmer Manhattan name.

>>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.
>
The sax is obviously related to Buffet in the same way as the
Evette-Shaeffer clarinet line, a lower-level, but still decent instrument.
Even the cheap ones used to have decent engraving back in the old days when
they took pride in their work. Today, even some older student-level saxes,
like the Martin Indiana and Pan American models, can pull down decent
bucks, as they share many of the better characteristics, especially sound,
of their Martin and Conn big brothers.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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