Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2001/08

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 10:38:59 -0400

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From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert

> ... 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.

Per F. Geoffrey Rendall's "The Clarinet," the Albert system was developed
in 1846. It was actually developed *after* the Boehm system (Rendall gives
1843 for that development).

>From looking at horns on eBay and in books and checking dates when possible,
the older Müller system and even simple system horns continued to be made
and sold in significant numbers for many decades after the introduction of
the Albert and Boehm systems.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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