Klarinet Archive - Posting 000248.txt from 2001/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:44:06 -0400

At 08:31 PM 8/17/2001 -0700, Gary Truesdail wrote:

>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.

I got the information from "The Sax and Brass Book," specifically from the
Sax and Brass Directory portion written by Tony Bacon (copyright Balafon
1998). It agrees with the serial number list on Sneezy. That list also
shows serial numbers from 2001 to 2500 as being from 1896-7. According to
another source, the Albert system only dates to the middle of the 19th
century, so it cannot be much older than the 1850's in any case. Conn
started his company with another man (the Conn-Dupont company) but it
became his alone in 1879. That being the case, I think you can set the
earliest POSSIBLE limit there. By the way, the fires were in 1883 and 1910.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

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