Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 2001/08

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:23:18 -0400

There is a good history of Conn at the Shrine to Music Museum site. One of
the staff has specialized in researching this company.

Dee Hays
Michigan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Truesdail" <gir@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert

>
> Bill,
>
> What was your source for determining the date of my Albert clarinet.
> There seems to be some indications that it might even be of earlier
> manufacture as one person told me the Conn factory burned down several
> times before 1895 and could be as early as 1888. The person I talked to
> said some years ago he talked to several people who claim their fathers
> worked in the Conn factory in 1888 and when the building burned all the
> records went up in smoke. So, everything from that time is dated 1895,
> the first date from which records survived.
>
> Gary
>
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