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Re: Bundy Clarinet

Author: Ursa
Date: 2014-11-25 07:33

Bob and Ben, I haven't seen an early Bundy 1400 such as you're describing but it's certainly possible they changed the body material from an early composite to PVC and then to ABS over the ensuing decades. I have a Normandy 11, made in the early 1950s, that is made out of some sort of plastic that is so brittle, the lower broke in half across a tone hole just sitting in its case. It wouldn't surprise me to find a really old Bundy made out of something similar.

Trade adverts have called the Bundy material Resonite through at least the 1980s. Vito has called their plastics Reso-Tone even though it was also changed to ABS at some point.

At any rate, the Bundy 1400 Resonite I have in studio has a serial number in the 300,000 range and it appears to be made of PVC. The Selmer 1400B clarinets that I've examined are ABS. And, for the record, I prefer the response and timbre of the PVC instruments.

Post Edited (2014-11-25 07:53)

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