Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 2007/03

From: "Klumpes, Ron" <Ron.Klumpes@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: Help Identifying Old Clarinet
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:09:35 -0400

From your description this appears to be an old Albert System (Simple
system) clarinet, sold by W.H. Palings in Sydney. The maker could be
anyone of a few in Europe, e.g. Czechoslovakia, Belgium , Holland,
Germany. The pitch will probably be a semitone up from concert A. They
were used many years ago in Concert bands. I used to play a "high pitch"
Bb, which was pitched in B.

/Ron Klumpes
Alice Springs, Oz.

> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:59:05 -0400
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: sdschwaeg@-----.com
> Subject: Help Identifying Old Clarinet
> Message-Id: <8C93ACB4C07F41F-894-4B4F@-----.com>
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> I'm looking for any information I can find about an old=20
> clarinet that recently found its way into my office. This=20
> thing is a plastic A clarinet, marked High Pitch, serial #=20
> 680. What we can read of the identifying stencil says: Made=20
> exclusively for W.H. Pa..... Co. Ltd.=20
> Sydney. It is not a Boehm system instrument. There are only=20
> 2 pinky keys per hand, and those have rollers between them. =20
> Of the left hand ones, one is a very long lever, and the=20
> other has an articulated mechanism so that when you push down=20
> on the key it bends in the middle and the pad also goes down.=20
> If anyone could point me in the direction of some pictures=20
> so that I could identify the key system, or tell me anything=20
> about the company or how old this thing might be, I would=20
> appreciate it. I'd like to keep it around for the students,=20
> as an example of a different keywork system.
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> Thanks!
> Sue Schwaegler
> Augustana College
> Rock Island, IL
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