Klarinet Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2006/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Is it or ain't it?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:57:55 -0400

At 09:19 PM 6/2/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>Noel,
>
>No, this is not a Silver King. It may, however be a Silver King knockoff
>for the Cleveland Musical Instrument company; it fits what limited
>descriptions there are out there of the S.K. A Silver King, only
>nickle-plated and otherwise branded? Maybe.

The Cleveland Musical Instrument Company was an H. N. White (King)
lower-level brand, sort of like Pan-American was for Conn.

>What threw me about the plating is that it doesn't look like silver (not
>shiny enough when polished) but doesn't look like nickle, either (has more
>of the warm color of silver). The inside of the bell is yellow, by the
>way. Brass, probably, but more egg yolk color than what I'd expect to see
>in "normal" brass.

Probably gold wash, then, like they usually did on silver-plated saxes back
then.

Bill Hausmann

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

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