Author: annev
Date: 2012-03-19 21:13
Steve Sklar,
I own an Olds Studio clarinet, from the 1950s, which has the slight upward bend on the pad cup at the top of the lower joint. Phil Pedlar, who has an interest in French stencil clarinets, worked on the clarinet and helped to theorize which company might have actually made the clarinet. His theory is that it was made by SML. If you are interested, that information is posted on Phil's website at:
https://sites.google.com/a/clarinetpages.net/www/vintage-odd-brands/olds-studio
I understand that there were many small clarinet manufacturers at that time and it's possible that keywork was obtained here and the body of the clarinet made there. But it makes me wonder whether that upswept pad cup is truly indicative of a Malerne made clarinet.
Lorie,
My son's first clarinet was a Selmer from the late 1920s. His band teacher used to call it, "the impossible to play clarinet", although both my son and his private clarinet teacher seemed to do okay with it. The biggest problem was that whenever my son struggled with some aspect of his clarinet playing at home we never knew if it was the clarinet or his technique. I had very little clarinet experience at that time and didn't know either. In retrospect it would have been a much better experience if we had bought a lightly used student clarinet from the Big Four, as suggested by Jack Kissinger. A good mouthpiece on a student clarinet can go a long way in producing a very nice sounding clarinet.
Good luck to you in your search!
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