Klarinet Archive - Posting 000348.txt from 2003/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] information needed about clarinet type "conductor"
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:29:26 -0400

At 07:33 PM 7/10/2003 +0200, Jeroen T. Salm wrote:
>Dear listmembers,
>
>today I found an advertisement at my "local" Ebay (The Netherlands) in wich
>is presented a clarinet (Bb / Boehm) "type" "conductor" for aprox. 189 Euro
>(=3D US Dollar). Does someone know anything about those (type of)=
clarinets? I
>can=B4t seem to find anything but information about clarinet AND conductors
>when searching via Google... :-)
>http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D2543355130&category=3D3=
08#eb
>ayphotohosting
>
>Many thanks in advance!

My guess is that it is a junky Chinese lamp base clarinet. At that price=20
for what appears to be a new instrument, it could hardly be anything else!

Lelia Loban wrote:

Is it possible that "conductor" is a translation of a word that would read
in English as "director"? If so, could this clarinet be a Conn Director?
My first clarinet, which my father purchased new for me in 1958, was a
wooden Conn Director. Conn sold it as an intermediate instrument. It was
available in either grenadilla or plastic, but I believe that by about
1962, Conn discontinued the wooden model and the Director was only
available in plastic after that...

It is unlikely to be a Conn Director, since they would not have translated=
=20
the name for out-of-country sales, and it looks like a NEW instrument, with=
=20
key sculpting unlike the Conns. Clarinets have not been produced under the=
=20
Conn name in years. UMI (now Conn-Selmer) has only been making them under=
=20
the Armstrong and Artley names for many years, and now, I believe, only=20
Artley. The Armstrong name is now for flutes only. But I digress...

Avoid unfamiliar brand names on eBay musical instruments unless all you=20
really WANT is a lampbase, wall-hanging, or theater prop.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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