Klarinet Archive - Posting 000253.txt from 2007/03

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Help Identifying Old Clarinet
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:20:35 -0400

Can't tell you much about the clarinet, but W.H. Paling was for many years
(one of) the premiere music companies in Australia, and, like so many other
music companies, imported instruments from all over the place and put their
name on them. I don't think this practice was continued by them past about
the sixties or perhaps early seventies. Their name has now disappeared from
the music scene in Oz, having been taken over by other business.

W.H. Paling was a Dutchman who arrived in Australia in 1853, and the
business which bore his name became a nationwide chain of stores, as well as
a music publisher.

Cheers,
Geoff.

Geoff Secomb Music
65 Sibley Road
Wynnum West 4178
Queensland, Australia
p/f: +61 7 3893 0983
email: gsecomb@-----.au

----- Original Message -----
From: <sdschwaeg@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:59 AM
Subject: [kl] Help Identifying Old Clarinet

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