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Author: Kate
Date: 2002-08-11 17:58
My dad picked up this clarinet at a flea market for $20....It looks like a really old clarinet...
It's slightly smaller than my Bb, and has the Pruefer mark on it, under which is H P, and under that is a B. The serial number is 1304
It only has three trill keys as well as (please excuse my complete lack of technical terms!) the right pinky only has two keys to play instead of four, and the left pinky has three, with only one note in common with each of them. The keys are on posts, and are tarnished.
If anybody has any information, or at least knows the correct techinical terms for what I've described, I would truly be grateful!
Thank you!
-K
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-08-11 18:17
A good start would be to go to the top of your screen where it says "search", give that a poke and when the "form" comes up just type in "Pruefer". There have been many entries lately and they might answer your questions.
Bob A
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-08-11 21:53
Hi, Kate
It's a Pruef(f)er, high pitch(HP), Bb Albert (possibly Oehler) system clarinet. Probably manufactured around turn of last century, give or take fifteen - twenty years.
Money-wise, high pitch horns don't bring much since they're not the standard or 'modern' (A=440) pitch. Period groups and collectors like them because they're fairly nice instruments. Twenty dollars is a good price if it has all its parts, mostly original, and hasn't been knocked around too much.
I have a Low Pitch Oehler, Pureffer, that's a real nice player Pruefer has been around a long, long time and the name varies a little decade to decade.
Pruefer also produces, if they're still in business(?), Boehm system instruments.
Summary: they're not bad horns.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-08-12 15:57
I agree with Ron's analysis, you have an Albert/Muller "oldie" which is better for your display-collection than for playing [with others]. Pruefer did make good-quality insts, I have an old wood 19/7 [keys/rings] single-body Boehm which still plays well [restored] that I love to show to friends, and a ?newer? plastic, just fair! Have fun, Don
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-08-12 16:26
Pruefer quit making clarinets in the 1970s when their factory burned. They never went back into the clarinet business.
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