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Re: Anyone ever heard of this brand? Looks like B & H

Author: Chris P
Date: 2022-01-05 01:27
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The good thing with Regents is they can be picked up for next to nothing and they're well worth spending top whack on a pro level overhaul and you'll still come in at under the cost of a brand new plastic clarinet from either Buffet or Yamaha.

Also you'll find plastic bodied (machined PVC with inset ebonite tonehole chimneys) Edgware Bb and A clarinets for low prices and the tenons fit the sockets nicely on them. I think B&H were one of the very few companies that made affordable A clarinets as well as plastic A clarinets.

I recently overhauled an early '50s Emperor which is identical to an Edgware except for the name on the bell. The middle tenon was typically wobbly on that as is the case with the majority of wooden B&H clarinets (and also Buffet Prestiges). I stabilised it by building up the tenon ring at the shoulder with superglue and wood dust and shimmed the metal tenon cap to make it a rock solid fit in the socket even without the tenon cork fitted. See attachments - the owner said it was last overhauled in 1969.

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

Post Edited (2022-01-05 01:34)

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