Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-07-29 20:22
jenny -
Pan American clarinets were, alas, very low quality. Actually, my very first clarinet was a PanAm, soon switched for a Bundy.
The striped surface you see is laminate -- i.e., plastic -- over a black plastic interior. There's an urban legend that the instruments were made from "propellor wood" from WW I fighters, but that's untrue.
The model was made in the midle to late 1950s. It wasn't made for very long, because the "wood" layer was quite thin and tended to delaminate from the core.
You can find several threads on the instruments by using the Search function at the top of the page and entering "(propellor OR propeller) wood"
You can certainly refurbish the instrument, but it will probably need all new pads. For the same money, you'd have a better instrument if you go to a used Bundy, or, if you can afford it, a new Yamaha or Vito.
Ken Shaw
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