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newbie's question-lots of :)

Author: mameshiba
Date: 2014-07-16 06:51

Hi all,

My name is Bambang and I am an Indonesian, I grew up in Singapore tho. I have not been playing my clarinets for 13 years or so. Well, I have an 8 year old son-Sean-he has been playing piano for abt 4 years now and this year, he was required to compose a song and the music school insisted that I did a duet with him, so it was a piano n clarinet duet, which was a dream came true for me, to be able to play a duet with my son. So, after years of not playing my clarinets, I had to start almost all over again, finding a clarinet teacher to help me etc. One of the result of the duet was that my son was interested in playing clarinet now! He is into his 4th clarinet lesson this week.
Now that my son is learning clarinet, he has lots of questions which I can't answer. Being a super curious 8 year old that he is.
He is asking abt the clarinet 'lineage' and 'history'
I have 2 Selmer 10 S clarinets, a Boosey n Hawkes Emperor clarinet, and a Yamaha clarinet. All the clarinets are pretty old, even the Yamaha when I first bought it during my early clarinet years (1984).
Is there anyway that I can track down the history of my clarinets?

- The Selmer 10S had a 'Depose' writen on the body and the serial number is: B4941.
- The Boosey n Hawkes Emperor has a serial number 530171.
The other Selmer 10S is being repaired, it has the clarinet pads changed, will look for the serial numbers when I have it back again.

I only used the Yamaha for a couple of years and then stick to the Selmer 10S.

There was a thread abt the Emperor in this forum which was posted in 2006 or something abt whether is it a good clarinet. Is it good?

Now I have another dream: to be able to do Clarinets duet with my son! Thanx to him!