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Author: Tamara
Date: 1999-04-12 04:07
Hi, I'm not a regular visitor to this board but i was hoping someone here could help me out. I've been trying to find out some information on a clarinet i picked up from a friend who found it at an auction. On the upper part of the top joint is stamped Pruefer surrounded by small stamps in the surface forming an oval, inside the oval below Pruefer is mfrs. PROV. R.I. and just below this is the words 'silver throat' in a sort of cursive lettering. Inside the top joint is plated with presumebly silver, or a metal of some kind. It is made of plastic, although it looks like wood at first glance, it fooled me actually. The keys are made of nickel and work perfectly although the pads are in bad disrepair, the springs are in excellent condition and appear to be blue steel, the only cork which needs replacing is the bottom one. The serial number is 44694 on both joints. It has the original case i suspect, wood covered in a red velvet like material, with a brown paper on the outside printed to look like a leather design. There are two brass locks with key holes, although there was no key with it, that open latch fashion. It has two barrels with it, the one not original to the horn is the slightly shorter of the two.
I have no idea to the date on the horn, all i can give you is a physical description and that i obtained it from the central KY area. No one has been able to tell me anything about it, i would greatly appreciate it if you could give me some information on it's origins. I am very curious as to why there is a silver plating in the top joint, i have never heard nor seen of this. Thank you.
Tamara
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