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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2003-02-02 11:24
It looks like a plastic body, and on the third picture, I SEE A RED PAD! It's probably one of those Clarinet Shaped Objects from India. It's not even worth the opening 1 Euro price.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-02-02 13:51
I purchased one from an Indian dealer on eBay for $15, including the case. I'm using the case, the "clarinet" hangs out side my house to frighten the larger birds away from my bird feeder!
I highly recommend the instrument, at a low price, for similar applications.
JJM
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Author: Dee
Date: 2003-02-02 15:32
Also from what little German I know, this is another one of those sellers who state the equivalent of "I know nothing about clarinets". So watch out.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2003-02-02 15:34
And by the way it is either a primitive version of the Albert system or perhaps even the Mueller system (it looks short one trill key on the upper joint for an Albert).
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Author: Rene
Date: 2003-02-02 16:53
No, actually I never dreamed of bidding for this ... don't know how to call it. Ken, I think you got it: "Clarinet Shaped Object".
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Author: Dimitrios
Date: 2003-02-02 17:44
It is an Albert system made in India. This is probably the latest sting on eBay; some buy them for $20.00-$25.00 each direct from the Indian makers on eBay, and then flog them for over 100% profit. A French seller described it as "ancienne clarinette en bons etas"....... what cheek!!!!!
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-02-02 21:02
Yup, another, 'I don't know anything about this but it looks okay to me'. The "system" is a primitive, cheap imitation of a pseudo-Simple - Mueller(?) that will never fly :| The materials, the ones I've seen personally anyway, aren't worth anything - even as 'scrap'.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-02-04 15:48
"ancienne clarinette en bons etas"? For a turkey like this one? Of course. It's certainly old, at least older than last night's dinner, and it is surely in good shape for the shape it's in. After all, as a CSO, it certainly fills the bill. Grand lamp-stand, I say.
The instrument itself is a "copy" (in general appearance, at least) of a Boosey circa 1900-1910, even to the decorative turnings at the lower end of the bell. But I cannot imagine one of these things playing anything like the prototype instrument. I did know of one person who actually bought one of these and said it played okay. I would have to hear that to believe it. Perhaps he was simply trying to hide his foolhardiness. And by the way, for just a few bucks difference, the instruments are available with or without Patent C#. How exciting.
Unfortunately, that thing should not have sold for 111 Euros even if it had already been made into a lamp. Otherwise, I'd go into the business of turning them into lamps.
Regards,
Joh
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