Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2008/03

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] German system clarinet
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:27:02 -0500

I have acquired an old German system clarinet from my father in law=92s
effects. He =93liberated=94 this piece during WW2 but no-one knows just =
where.

It has a holster rather than a case which can be attached to a belt.

The rather indistinct makers markings are

B
F G UEBEL
Wohlhausen
Markneukirchen

But it also has some other markings :

Hess
Landespolizai
1934

The mouthpiece looks as though the reeds may have been bound rather than
using a ligature.

The wood is rather dry but there are no cracks and the keys are all =
present
and correct with no bends or marks.=20
One of two pads have come unstuck and one spring is missing. =
Surprisingly it
does =93play=94.=20

Is this instrument worth an overhaul?

regards
Peter Gentry=20

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