Klarinet Archive - Posting 000262.txt from 2008/11

From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clear Clarinet
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:46:46 -0500


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From: "Fred" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:38 PM
Subject: [kl] Clear Clarinet

> My friend just showed me a clarinet made from some sort of CLEAR
> material, like thick plexiglass(?). It was sort of like the colored
> clear LeBlancs of a few years ago. She said it belonged to her
> father and was 100 years old, but I doubt that because it was a
> standard 17-6 Boehm system instrument. The logo on it is:
>
> V. Kohlert's
> Sons
> Graslitz
> 270577
>
> Does anyone have any info on this horn?
>
> Fred
>

Well the Boehm system was developed in the mid 1800s so the key system does
not preclude it being that old. But I think the material that you describe
probably was not available.

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