Klarinet Archive - Posting 000255.txt from 2007/03

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Help Identifying Old Clarinet
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:55:25 -0400

As the High/low Pitch business did not apply to the European Mainland
but only to Britain and the "colonies" the clarinet was probably
English; if it is in ebonite it is probably by Hawkes as they made
instruments extensively in this material.
Martin

On 22 Mar 2007, at 23:09, Klumpes, Ron wrote:

> 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>
>>
>> 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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