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Interesting Keywork

Author: SteveP
Date: 2016-12-23 04:17

A friend recently showed me a clarinet he bought cheap on ebay and repadded for grins. It is a wood Bflat Albert system with a bunch of extra keywork. Unfortunately, on playing it, I also realized it was high pitch.

The wood looked nice, but the horn itself had no numbers except that each joint was marked Bb H.P. (might be high pitch but see below).

The bell had an almost unreadable cartouche but with a magnifier and a low angle LED light I was able to make out "Harwood Professional" and "J. W. Jenkins Co." An online search turned up the Kansas City Music company J. W. Jenkins and the liklihood that this was a Kohlert Stencil.

The keys have an articulated G#, 6 rings, an alternate left Eb, a register key linkage to the throat #1 pad, and also two interconnects that would lift the G# pad (subject to RH fingers) whenever the LH C# and B levers were pressed. I don't play a lot of Albert system so I don't immediately recognize when such things would be useful. However, I have a few Albert horns and have seen nothing like these.

I though people might be interested in photos.

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Re: Interesting Keywork

Author: SteveP
Date: 2016-12-23 04:24
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Re: Interesting Keywork

Author: SteveP
Date: 2016-12-23 04:25
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Re: Interesting Keywork

Author: Wes
Date: 2016-12-23 09:33

That clarinet may be a version of the Pupeschi System. I have one Conn HP Pupeschi clarinet, but it is in storage and I can't look at it right now to compare it.

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Re: Interesting Keywork

Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-12-23 13:29

That's a German system with articulated C#/G#.

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

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