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Author: Angel
Date: 1999-02-14 00:01
I'm new to all this and am curious if someone could help me with any information about this clarinet. It's market H. Bettoney Boston on the mouth piece and on the horn it's stamped BC Cadet. There is also a 44D stamp on the underside. It appears to be silver or silver plate and it's 25 3/4 inches ong including the mouth piece. Like I said I know nothing about it and any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Angel
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Author: jim lande (lande @ erols.com)
Date: 1999-02-14 01:05
Bettoney was an instrument maker that merged with the Cundy sheet music company (early in the century, I think). Someone posted on Klarinet some time back that they were the largest seller of band instruments in the country for some years in the 1930s. Judging by what shows up on eBay, the Cadet and the 3 Star were the most common models of metal clarinet. They are silver plate over brass -- I think. Your's probably was made between 1930 and 1940. I have a little flyer that shows that the price new was $45 in 1937. Bettoney made other models, of which the Silva Bet was the most desirable. Based on the flyer, their metal clarinets sold for the same prices as their comparable grade wooden clarinets.
Cadets are selling for between $40 and $80 depending on condition, case, and the whims of the auctions. It would make a nice horn for a marching bad.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-02-16 19:51
As I replied re: H B on the Early Clarinet Onelist, the only patent I have found of his is U S 1,705,634 showing some construction details different from the wood methods. The pat was issued in 1929 [filed in 1927]. As I remember, the Silva-Bet model was the best of all the metals, didnt crack in winter but sure was cold! Many makers tried to sell their models with limited success up to about 1940 when better techniques such as ringing the tenons were developed. Hope this may help.
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