Klarinet Archive - Posting 000356.txt from 2006/08

From: "Ellis Johnson" <ellisjohnson@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Penzel-Mueller Archives
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:42:05 -0400

My Penzell Mueller serial number is 1099. I would also like to know
when mine was from. The clarinet prof at the University of Washington
thought it was from somewhere around 1880 or 1890.

On 27/08/06, Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu> wrote:
> My Penzel-Mueller serial number is 44671 and dates back to around
> 1940. That's the best I can do.
>
> Oliver
>
> At 10:03 PM 8/26/2006, you wrote:
> >Does anyone on list know where I can find the archives for Penzel-
> >Mueller (that is, if they exist)? A search on Google as well as
> >woodwind.org returned 0 results. Does any one know if anyone has
> >custody of those archives, and how to contact the custodian?
> >
> >I have just purchased a Penzel-Mueller Jean Aubert Series Clarinet
> >off eBay. I'm attempting to date this instrument, as well as
> >overhaul the horn (I spent several hours Friday Night (8/25/06)
> >getting the pads removed, as it looked like moths had a field day on
> >the pads.
> >
> >As for myself, I'm returning to the list after an absence of several
> >years. After 20 years in I.T., and being unable to find sufficient
> >work for the last 2 years (no thanks to all the support and help desk
> >work being outsourced to India and SE Asia), and suffering from
> >massive bouts of bipolar episodes (and being diabetic doesn't help
> >with being bipolar), I've come full circle. I'm going back to my
> >first love: music. I've had several public school instrumental music
> >teachers begging me for years to teach. While I didn't abandon music
> >entirely (I'm better known as a lyric tenor in these parts, when I'm
> >not doing I.T. or delivering pizza, another profession that, lately,
> >for obvious reasons, is becoming more depressing), it's time to get
> >back "into the groove", so to speak. A former supervisor, when I was
> >still working as a junior network analyst for the U.S. Army--
> >Pentagon, said to me too many times, "You're obviously a fine
> >musician. Why don't you do something you love?", I've finally come to
> >that realization, after living in denial for the last 20 years, music
> >is where I belong.
> >
> >Randy Miller
> >
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