Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 2009/01

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: RE: [kl] Bass Clarinet-Bundy-what did RAlph Morgan say?
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:37:32 -0500

Hey Bill thanks for the info.

Do you know any more on the Barbier? We have had a couple through. Were they the early Bundy wood?

What happened in 1957 according to Ralph, is that a certain character that was a competitor insinuated his employee into the plastic company that made the Bundy clarinet. Once he found out the formula for the plastic, he quit and went back to his clarinet making company, that company started using the"Selmer" plastic. Ralph told me he was astounded at the reaction Selmer had. (Was it Groliman?) The Selmer execs went to the new bore-BUT they also changed to an inferior plastic so as not to be making from the same plastic as _____.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
>Sent: Jan 9, 2009 8:12 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Bass Clarinet-Bundy-what did RAlph Morgan say?
>
>At 07:11 PM 1/9/2009, Kurt Heisig wrote:
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>>Ralph (morgan) said that the EARLY Bundy Bb's WERE the Selmer BT
>>(What Benny Goodman played.) in plastic and that Benny Goodman had
>>one too for unfriendly to wood, weather conditions.
>>
>>That model was made up to 1957. Someday I will tell what happened in 1957.
>
>The Selmer 1400 is STILL made to that specification (.590 cylindrical
>bore, etc.), plus/minus a few keywork changes and general decay in
>build quality. What probably happened in 1957 is that they came out
>with the model 1401, with a .577 polycylindrical bore. The 1400
>continued in production, though. The music store where I work
>continued to buy and rent them until recently, but we have given
>up. Our shop is tired of spending so much time correcting factory
>defects (loose posts, Ab adjustment screws that completely MISS the A
>key, etc.). Too bad, because it is still basically a good horn. I
>have two myself, one plastic and one wood (not a nickel's worth of
>difference in the sound).
>
>I was working on an F. Barbier clarinet the other day (they were sold
>by Selmer). The key sculpting was so distinctive that it was clear
>that it was the template for the Bundy keywork to come.
>
>
>
>Bill Hausmann
>
>If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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