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RE: Old Wood Bundy Clarinet

Author: jbutler
Date: 2001-01-21 14:55

Don,

George Bundy did import clarinets from the Selmer Co in the first years after taking over the company in New York. I'm not certain, but he probably imported them BEFORE moving the company to Elkhart. Alexandre Selmer returned to Paris in 1918 according to Selmer history and George Bundy moved production to Elkhart in the early 20's. These early Bundy "Paris" clarinets have the same key work as the Paris clarinets of the 20's (you know, the ones that are marked with the "S.D.G.D." on the trademark). I've overhauled a couple of them that play very well, although they seem to have a smaller bore than the Selmers that followed, i.e. BT, Centered Tone. Selmer history is very interesting and the company published a nice booklet about it. Did you know that Geo. Bundy had flute maker Geo Haynes make Selmer flutes in the 20's? They are marked "Master Flute" and "Original Haynes". Flute production was moved to Boston for a couple of years before the opening of the Elkhart plant. He later brought a young man named Kurt Gemeinhardt to the US from Germany to oversee production of flutes. All of this information is readily availabe from Selmer. BTW it does state in this booklet that the Bundy 1400 bore was "patterned after the Selmer (Paris) BTclarinet, used by such great artists as Benny Goodman".

Later,

John

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