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Author: Ryan Wilson
Date: 1999-03-24 18:42
I picked up a Doucet #AE1682 silver clarinet in a guitar shop in Florida. I am looking for more information on the company and/or this form of instrument. Please respond if you happen to know any further information on my instrument. Thank you.
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Author: Dan Temkin
Date: 1999-03-24 20:00
I own two silver clarinets made for the US Navey. Send me your questions and I will try to answer then. Most of all don't turn the instrument into a lamp. They usally have vary importent historical value. Not all metal clarinets get great tone or sound quality and will not play greatly in tune. If you don't want then I would be in the market to by then so email me back if you can. I hope this will help.
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Author: Rachel
Date: 1999-03-25 02:40
Your comment about turning the clarinet into a lamp made me laugh. Right now mine is reedless, on top of my piano, decoratively arranged with my reeeally old silver flute (not the one I play -- I have a school-band-variety Armstrong for that) and some old sheet music (Rhapsody in Blue, just happened to be the old sheet music I had lying around). I've never played it; I don't have a reed for it. It was my mother-in-law's; she played it in high school. But I would never make it into a lamp -- eventually I want to learn to play it. My husband did briefly suggest the lamp idea when he dug it out of the basement a couple of weeks ago.
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Author: jim lande (lande @ erols.com)
Date: 1999-03-26 04:01
Silver plated clarinets ususally do not have an lacquer.
I bought one in in the early 1970s, shined it up and more or less got it working. I kept it out for display. After about 15 years it looked worse than when I started. The sulfer in the air tarnishes these things. I have a couple now, like them, and play them. I try to keep them in cases along with an anti-tarnish (sulfer absorbing) strip. You can only polish the plating so many times before you hit the base metal. Plan on lacquering if you are going to use it for display.
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