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Author: TraceyT
Date: 2002-04-04 01:43
When I was playing clarinet in an orchestra, someone gave me an old clarinet - it's a Holton Collegiate and is silver (in color, anyway). I had packed it away and forgotten about it, but just came across it the other day.
Does anyone know anything about it, what it may be worth?
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Author: Mitch A
Date: 2002-04-04 04:50
My sons and I just visited a place in NJ with 100+ t-bones, and 250+ trumpets on the walls (spent three hours and $1,700.00) Anyway, we were told there that Holton's collegiate trumpets and trombones are considered to be mid-line models. I have no idea if this is true for their clarinets, nor if they made tham are if they are stencil horns, perhaps made by Conn.
Mitch
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Author: mpinner@pacific.net.au
Date: 2002-04-04 10:56
Anything woodwind with a Holton badge is a Vito/ Leblanc. This corporation also sells Martin! Holton make some pretty expensive brass gear like the Sandoval trumpets and flugelhorns, the Maynard Ferguson valve troms and trumpets and the ubiquitous Farkas French Horns. The only good woodwind from this mob are Leblanc clarinets which come in a variety of models from student to millionaire.
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-04-04 11:10
Based on my recent eBay perusal probably between $75 and $250 depending on all details.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-04-04 11:16
Today Holton is a Leblanc line but it wasn't so in the days of the Holton Collegiate model.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-04-04 14:52
It probably has comparable value to an old sliderule or set of 3-D movie specs. I have an old metal (gold colored) LeBlanc Noblet that I use for alumni marching band pre-game and halftime shows every fall. No matter how hard it falls to the turf, it always comes up playing (unlike this "thinks he's still a youngster" 60+ alumni who's huffing and puffin after only the second, pre-game run-on rehearsal) During it's 11 month "off season", it hangs on my living room wall for emergency use to fend off any unwelcomed intruders and to provide guests with something to talk about during conversatinal lulls (usually unnecesary, however, when my wife is present). Good luck with yours, and Good Clarineting with your "others"
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