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Re: Artist model information

Author: oseely
Date: 2013-09-30 01:06

My Artist model serial number looks like 74911 and it was made before 1950 (I was 11 years old) when my dad bought it from a local jazz clarinetist for $95. In trying to give myself an excuse to buy a new Buffet or Selmer, I calculated a standard deviation on the notes of a chromatic scale from low E to C above the staff, not trying to cheat in any way, just playing each note with my normal embouchure and looking at the Hz deviation of each note on my Korg tuner. The comparison was with my Selmer 10 A clarinet, made around 1965. The Penzel-Mueller came out with a slightly smaller SD than the Selmer. So the long and the short of it is that I still don't have a decent excuse to buy a new instrument.

Oliver Seely

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