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Re: Serial Number Dilemma

Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-12-04 04:12

They may have either done a top joint transplant with a used top joint from a similar age clarinet or someone accidentally mixed the joints up on two instruments.

So long as the joints are the same make and model and it plays well, there shouldn't be any real cause for concern. I've seen an oboe with three different serial numbers (a Howarth XL) but it played great - plastic top joint, blackwood lower joint and cocobolo bell. So a real mix'n'match - but if it works, it works.

If you think about it, all clarinets are made up of different billets of wood anyway, so the joints were all made separately and then only came together to form a single instrument just before the factory number or serial number was stamped on.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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