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 Re: how/where did you acquire your first clarinet
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2008-01-09 01:39

I found my first clarinet at the First Monday (as it started on the first Monday of the month, and is like the car boot sales we have in the UK but on a larger scale) in Canton, Texas back in August 1986 - it was a 1965 Boosey&Hawkes Series 2-20 (serial number 234701 - amazing how I still remember that!).

I had seen other clarinets on sale there, mostly plastic Vito, Bundy or Artley types for a lot more money (more than I could afford at the time, and better maintained clarinets of the same type could be bought from a music shop in Tyler) and just happened to see a case on one stall laid in a pram which revealed this clarinet when I opened it (the case was a single, but had a huge bits compartment in the front making it almost as large as a double case - made by Ess&Ess Cases? Something like that).

As most clarinet players I knew at the time played B&H clarinets (except for my first woodwind teacher who was a Buffet player), I knew I couldn't go too far wrong with this one. I asked the seller how much it was and he said '$7.75' - I had to ask him to repeat himself, not because of his accent, but I just didn't believe him the first time, and $7.75 it was.

The same weekend I bought an old silver-plated Buescher Tru-Tone alto (without the front F key) for $50 which I part exchanged for a plastic B&H Regent oboe when I got back to the UK in September. I should have kept the Buescher as my alto at the time was a Communist-era B&S (stamped 'Elkhart' as it was supplied by Vincent Bach).

The clarinet served me well, I learnt to do various repairs on it, repadded it several times with different pads (finally with cork and leather), used it for the remainder of my time at school and started college with it, but it got stolen from the college music department back in 1989.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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