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Author: Rosemary Goddard
Date: 1999-11-24 02:20
When I was 10 my grandmother gave me her clarinet. She told me that she used it when she was in school and wanted me to learn how to play it. I am 25 now and am on this Antique kick. Always looking to find out how much things that are old are worth. I am looked for months now for information about my clarinet. But havnt found a thing. So, I was hopeing to get some help from all of you. There is a sorta stamp in the bell of the clarinet that says in this order
WOLVERINE
Grinnell Bros.
Detroit, MI.
R 8523
Please if anyone has heard of this maker or has a clarinet like mine... well please write me e-mail.
Thank you for your time. Rosemary Goddard
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-11-24 02:54
Grinnel was a music store in Detroit that had stencils of all instruments made for it - there's plenty of Grinnel pianos from the 30s and 40s around town here. The Grinnel name has been revived a few years back - they're now a mass-market music/piano store, selling second-rate pianos and mostly junk guitars.
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Author: Rosemary
Date: 1999-11-24 13:39
Thank you for replying to my post. You gave me alot of useful information. Do you know who made the instruments for them, or around what year they sold clarinets?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-11-25 17:24
I recall the Grinell name from the 1930-40 era living in Lansing, MI. My Detroit cousin had a Pruefer [or other?] clar which prob. came from Gr's. Another possibility is it might be a Bettoney. Luck, Don
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-11-25 17:36
Grinnel isn't listed in the New Langwill Index.
Stencil clarinets, as Don noted, could be just about from anyone. The store would put in an order for clarinets to an importer, who'd then farm out the orders to manufacturers, many of them in France. Some were made on the same line as a more pricey model.
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-11-25 19:21
You never know about those stencil clarinets unless your local repairman can recognize something distinctive that they can identify. I still have my original H. Freeman, N.Y. clarinet from 1961. I thought it was a Normandy, but a freind of mine who has been a repairman for many many years said it was deffinately a medium grade Buffet. He determined this by some of the keys and how they were made.
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Author: Rosemary
Date: 1999-11-27 00:24
You have all been very helpful. I appreciate it very much. Thanks! Rosemary
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