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 Collegiate Wood Clarinet
Author: psmartin 
Date:   2024-01-01 08:50

So, I just picked up a "Collegiate Wood Clarinet" off of eBay tonight, so I have an instrument to start teaching my daughter to play. From what I have seen online these were intermediate instruments and were made in France, but this one is clearly marked Germany. I think it might actually be one of the plastic clarinets and was made from before 1973, when it was ruled that West and East Germany couldn't simply use Germany to mark their goods.

I know Collegiate was a student/intermediate model introduced by the Frank Horton Company. It was bought by Leblanc in 1964. It seems they originally offered metal clarinets that have been mentioned on here before, but nothing mentioned about their wood clarinets that I can find.

Thanks,
Paul

Paul

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 Re: Collegiate Wood Clarinet
Author: Dan Shusta 
Date:   2024-01-01 10:28

Interesting history about Frank Holton...

https://holtonloyalist.com/history/



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 Re: Collegiate Wood Clarinet
Author: donald 
Date:   2024-01-01 11:24

Very cool website about Holton, a pity they moved from Elkhorn!!!!

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 Re: Collegiate Wood Clarinet
Author: psmartin 
Date:   2024-01-01 22:11

It is a very interesting history, and what little I was able to find it seems like the wood clarinets were stencil instruments. I did reach out to Steve from ClarinetPerfection.com to get his thoughts.

It should do the job for me to teach my daughter how to play and then we will make a decision to keep it or donate it to the local school.

Paul

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 Re: Collegiate Wood Clarinet
Author: Dan Shusta 
Date:   2024-01-02 00:34

Paul,

It might be worthwhile to get in contact with Tom Ridenour. Tom worked for Leblanc from 1989-1997. Although that's 25 years after Leblanc acquired the Holton company, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Tom, during those years, acquired a knowledge of all the clarinets Leblanc made prior to his joining the company.

I suggest calling his business phone at 1-888-258-7845.

If you call, you'll probably get a hold of his son Ted. (Unless Ted no longer works for his father.)

Good luck!



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 Re: Collegiate Wood Clarinet
Author: m1964 
Date:   2024-01-02 02:58

psmartin wrote:

"...It should do the job for me to teach my daughter how to play and then we will make a decision to keep it or donate it to the local school."

I would definitely check for leaks- new pads do not guarantee from leaks unless tone holes were re-surfaced.

***Spoke recently to someone who claimed he replaced all pads on a clarinet he put on eBay. He used 10mm non-stepped leather pads on upper joint and, similarly, 17mm non-stepped pads on lower 4 tone holes...

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