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Re: Artist model information

Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2012-12-10 13:42

affects wrote:

> I just acquired a Old Penzel Mueller-Artist Model Clarinet.
> Appears it was made in France. Serial #17115.
>
> I have looked at several of these on the web and noticed that
> mine has a bird or an eagle above the scripted word artist. I
> have not seen this on any other.
>

You have one of the earlier P-M Artist clarinets, probably made in the early 1930's in Long Island City, NY (all P-M clarinets were made in NY). The early "Artist" models with serial number comprised entirely of numbers were the top of the line P-M clarinet when they were produced. P-M used the eagle logo on all of their earlier clarinets and didn't drop it until after WW2. Penzel Mueller continued making the "Artist" model right up until the company failed in the mid 1950's but the later ones had serial numbers beginning with the letter "L" and were not nearly as good as the earlier ones having become an intermediate model by that point.

I own several P-M clarinets and in my opinion the pre-war ones are comparable in quality to most of the clarients coming out of europe at the time and were probably the best American-made clarinets. Sadly with the exception of the Clari-Met (an extremely rare a very high quality metal clarinet) most P-M clarinets don't command much in the way of resale value. The brand is not very well known and most of the people that do know it assosciate the brand with their rather poor quality later clarinets rather than their very good earlier ones.

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