Klarinet Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2011/06

From: "Christophe ASTIER" <christophe.astier@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman Clarinet
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:12:24 -0400

I have written an email to Mr David REDDEN who is head of this department at
Sothebys
to inform him of this error... (What he will do with it is another story !)

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From: <hns692@-----.com>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 1:29 PM
To: <klarinet@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman Clarinet

>
> I checked Goodman's date of death -- June 1986. I suspect the wrong
> information that Sotheby's is putting out is that he played it in the
> 30s.
> Unless, of course, it was a prototype 10S that was given to him by Selmer
> for
> use and critiquing before it went into production. That theory is
> probably
> a real stretch, though, given the 40-year span. I'd suggest the horn is
> one he used in his later playing years. The mouthpiece is probably also
> a
> specialty. One which was made to his specifications to use with the horn
> and from his favorite blank stock.
>
> Anyone for a go at calling Sothebys to clarify what they really have?
> There seems to be a fairly large disconnect between what they're
> professing to
> auction and what it really is.
>
> Lee Ann Hansen
> Eb/Bb Clarinet
> First John Philip Sousa Memorial Band
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/3/2011 5:08:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> christophe.astier@-----.fr writes:
>
> Sorry guys, I posted this message in the wrong thread, here it is, where
> it
> belongs (Benny Goodman clarinet)
>
> _____________________________________
>
> Hi all,
>
> It also comes as a huge surprise (for me, at least) that BG was able to
> play
> a Series 1OS Selmer clarinet in the 30s,
> I thought this model only appeared in the 70s in the Selmer range...
> Any
> idea ?
>
> Christophe.
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Joshua Lipton" <jdl320@-----.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 4:14 PM
> To: <klarinet@-----.com>
> Subject: [kl] Benny Goodman Clarinet
>
>> I notice in the June 17 book sale (of all places) at Sotheby's New York,
> a
>> clarinet owned and played by Goodman in the 30s. You can read about it
>> in
>> their online catalogue:
>> http://www.sothebys.com/app/ecatalogue/fhtml/index.jsp?event_id=30587
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