Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Identifying age of Buffet Clarinet
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:25:59 -0500

GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> Erik asks <<The register key is the wrap around type. There is no serial
> number marked anywhere, and it is marked LP (low pitch, I assume). Is there any
> good way to tell how old it might be>>
>
> Erik - it's older than me, so therefore, it's ancient. It might even be older
> than Dan Leeson!
>
> Walter

Well it might be older than me, but it is not smarter or better informed
that me. The height of the HP and LP playing was in the 1920s.
Although it continued for a while, I believe that the major companies
stopped making two clarinets, one a high pitched instrument, the other a
low pitched one by aound 1935. I once had a high pitched b-flat
clarinet that I used as a clarinet in b-natural during a performance of
Mozart's Idomeneo. I was magnificent, handsome, and well-informed.

--
Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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