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Re: Console Clarinet

Author: BartHx
Date: 2010-06-13 03:35

jasperbay: If the instrument was made by Kohlert between 1910 and 1930, it would have been in Bohemia. The area became Czecho-Slovakia before WWII. The Nazis moved Kohlert to Germany during the war to try to secure an additional source of income. The Nazis didn't bother to take all the tools with them, so the quality dropped. After the war, the workers spread around Europe and some to the United States (including some back to Czechoslovakia). Many continued to use the Kohlert name, but none ever quite got the quality back to pre-war levels. I have a Selmer Centered Tone, Series 9, and Series 10. My Czecho-Slovakia Kohlert is clearly within the same ballpark.

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