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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-01-17 02:12
From <b><i>The New Langwill Index</i></b>:
<b>Meinel, Clemens</b> WWI <i>fl</i> Wemitzgrün 1896-<i>p</i>1950.
1896 established; 1908 advertised as clarinet specialist.
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Author: Rene
Date: 2001-01-17 10:32
I have a clarinet by Clemens Meinel, Wernitzgrün. I got it used and the previous owner told me it was about 30 years old. So 1950 is dubious. However, it is not a masterpiece anyway.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-01-17 11:39
There are some possible explanations for this though.
1. The name might have been licensed or bought out by another company who continued to use it for several more years.
2. The previous owner may have been guessing on its age. This is very, very common. One can't easily tell an instruments age simply by appearance as both the Boehm and Albert systems were developed back in the 1840s (almost 160 years ago). Checking serial numbers of instruments listed on places like the eBay auction site frequently shows the seller to be off by several decades.
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