Author: wcarey
Date: 2014-02-13 03:31
Just to add my own info for the sake of research and posterity - I have a rubber Carl Fischer Artist Model, made in Germany with a serial number in the 5000's. Has a very short barrel that must be pulled way out to play in tune, and one tenon bore is fully lined with metal. I think it likely to have been manufactured in the late 50's or early 60's, maybe by Kohlert but I think more likely Schreiber. I have seen a wood Schreiber clarinet on "the auction site" with an almost identical case and array of accessories, and with the same particularly thin metal ring on the bell where the bell connects to the lower tenon. Obviously that is no proof, and I don't have any particular expertise to say much else except that its playing characteristics seem just as described for rubber clarinets on this forum and others - fast response, even stength and intonation in all registers, dark, woody, very different than my main horn (1980's Buffet C-13). I like it so much, I find myself tempted to pick up another one or two rubber instruments to explore and compare to this one. It is amazing that they sell so cheap!
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