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RE: The "Boston Wonder"

Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-02-20 16:22

Dee wrote:
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Andy wrote:
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Well, if it's worth keeping keep it, but if it's way to broken go ahead and make it into a lamp. I'm sure it would look quite different as a lamp. hmm... i've never seen a clarinet lamp...i wonder what it would look like.
Well good luck!
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I've seen pictures of clarinet lamps and they are dreadfully ugly. No clarinet deserves that fate. If it can't be made playable, hang it as a wall decoration. They look much nicer this way.

About the only thing that is not repairable is if the keys were made of what is called "pot metal" and one of the keys themselves has actually broken (springs are of course easily fixed).

Several junktiques malls in the Washington, D. C. area offer clarinet lamps for around $50 or $60 each, although they don't seem to sell. A store in Ellicott City, MD has had the same two Bundy lamps for sale for at least three years now. (I know they're the same two because I was curious whether or not they'd sell and I copied down their serial numbers.) But hey, if someone's decorating taste runs to fake leopard fur couch covers, "gas chamber green" long shag carpets, lava lamps, genuine Naugahyde beanbag chairs and Elvis painted on black velvet, then clarinet lamps might fit right in.

One suggestion about hanging a clarinet on a wall: Don't wreck the instrument for good by drilling a hole through it. I've passed up several otherwise interesting musical instruments that have been mutilated this way. Just put a long nail into the wall at an angle and set the thumb hole over the nail.

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