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Author: graham
Date: 2000-03-21 00:09
Does any one know about old american made bass clarinets?
I.E. Pedlar, conn, matin etc.
also has any one herd of matin freres bass clarinets? is this the same martin as martin indiana? how do they play?
Also has any one herd of old eurpoean made bass clarinets?
Such as robert siours(france), and some old austrian made basses?
Thank you for always being so helpful,
Graham
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-03-21 00:49
I have several bass clarinets, a Pedler [low Eb] which is prob. 1920-40 vintage and a Conn [low E only] prob. 1950, the Ped plays poorly with my small hands, the Conn plays quite well, but doesn't have the low-note resonance of my Selmer 33. All 3 do have double-register-keying which does help the lower clarion notes playability. I also have viewed the Fr and Ger basses on EBAY but cant help there. Re: Martin Freres [brothers in Fr], they have made good cl's for years, I dont know of their basses, tho. What questions have you that I haven't touched upon? Don
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-03-21 08:20
I have a Chabot, which is a French made instrument imported into the US. I do not know how old it is, but it has only one pin for the left hand E and F sharp keys. On a clarinet that might suggest a date no later than 1940 (when two pins started to be used, I think), but I do not know whether the same conclusion can be drawn with respect to Bass Clarinets. Lower register superb, but upper register not too good.
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Author: Dave Spiegelthal
Date: 2000-03-21 14:51
Martin Freres (France) and The Martin Co. (Indiana) are two entirely different companies, as far as I know. Also, I just acquired a Kohlert (Winnenden, Germany) bass clarinet, don't know when it was made, but I'm guessing 1960's or thereabouts. Has a double register key mechanism with the small upper hole on the cork tenon neck --- although the mechanism (with its associated second bridge key) is quite fragile and finicky in terms of adjustment (with the nasty two-opposing-springs design), when it works, it plays really well. I've only had this horn for a couple of weeks, but I really like it. Don't know if I could recommend it to anyone who isn't at least an amateur repair technician, however........
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Author: SusieQ
Date: 2000-03-21 14:57
Don & Dave,
It seems that you know a lot about different vintage bass clarinets. I have an old Bundy with a serial number of 5858, I am guessing that it is from around the 1960's, but I really have no idea of how old it is. It plays pretty good for an old klunker. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
SusieQ
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-03-21 18:16
S Q , Some time back, I was called in to help with school cl repairs, so I picked a number of plastic basses, Bundys and Vitos. Several were good players with TLC, several quite poor as compared to my menagerie! Guess you just have to try them out. Don
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Author: woodchuck
Date: 2005-02-07 02:22
Hi SQ,
If your serial # corresponds to Selmer #'s, who owned Bundy from about '63 on, yours was made around 1970. See
http://www.musictrader.com/serialnos.html
~Peter.
Somewhere between the classical
and the blues, is the flower
of the indigenous.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-02-07 02:32
woodchuck wrote:
> Hi SQ,
> If your serial # corresponds to Selmer #'s, who owned Bundy
> from about '63 on, yours was made around 1970.
Woodchuck... Look at the date on this thread. It is almost 5 years old...GBK
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