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Author: Phil Colet
Date: 2002-01-29 06:29
I have an old clarinet stamped only V0SS and cannot find any information on it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you very much.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-01-31 15:26
Since you haven't heard from anyone re: VOSS, I looked in Rendall, Lawson and Brymer, but found nothing. I presume Mark C didn't find any reference in Langwill, etc. My guess is that it is a "stencilled" name, or initials. Sorry, Don
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Author: Phil Colet
Date: 2002-01-31 18:41
Thank you very much for looking it up. I suspected this might be the case when I could find nothing and no one answered.
Is the "stencilling" a common thing? Would schools do this to identify their instruments?
Once again, I very much appreciate your help. I have recently picked up my clarinet after 20 years as my daughter is starting it at school. It has been fun to get back into it. This list has been a useful and motivating source of information.
Phil
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-01-31 18:50
Stencilling is and was very common. A distributor will often contract with a clarinet maker to produce instruments with the distributor's name rather than the manufacturer's name. Sometimes the instruments are very good and sometimes very poor. For a while in the early 1900s, Carl Fischer distributed and sold Buffet clarinets that were stenciled under the Carl Fischer name. Buffet did not appear anywhere on the horn. On the other hand, many of the stencil "brands" available today are cheaply made Chinese junk.
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Author: Sheryl
Date: 2002-08-21 03:43
Greetings,
I've been looking all over for info about a clarinet I have which is labeled Voss.
I bought it at a flea market in central Virginia 15 years ago for $50. It's just a
plastic clarinet but it has a good tone and the workmanship seems to be pretty
good. It's Boehm system.
I'm sorry nobody has any info on it. I've been using the mouthpiece that came
with it which is fine, but my teacher suggested I get a mouthpiece which was
more open since we're doing jazz (I took about 3-6 months of lessons when I
bought it, then dropped it until this summer). When I tried a new mouthpiece
on it, I discovered that the bore of the tuning barrel is too small for the other
mouthpiece to fit. I feel like the guys in the movie "Brazil": "They went metric
again without telling us." I compared my clarinet to my teacher's Buffet. His
tuning barrel will fit my clarinet (only the one end is a non-standard size), but
his tuning barrel and mine are not the same length.
Anybody have any ideas about what's going on with my clarinet? Did some
strange person make clarinets and mouthpieces that will work with no other
brand or is there someplace I can get these slightly smaller mouthpieces?
Is this as weird as I think it is?
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.
Sheryl
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Author: Mytrike2
Date: 2018-07-22 20:51
I also have Voss clarinet. It is a woody that was purchased used in Frankfurt, Germany in 1963. If anyone can tell me more I would love the information. The clarinet is well over 50 years old and is still in very good condition
mytrike2@cox.net
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-07-23 23:45
Often the key designs give away who made the clarinet.
If you post some pics of the clarinet/keys there is a good change of identification.
For example I can often tell a Buffet from a Selmer, surely from a LeBlanc, but not from other companies, such as China. And often the different models, just from keys.
I personally think it was made somewhere is Germany, without knowing more about the looks of it. Voss could have been a shortened name.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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