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Author: Roe
Date: 2002-10-20 15:34
Can anyone help me?...have what seems to be an old Rene Dumont clarinet #E1510.....don't know anything about it.....bought at estate sale.....don't know if it works.....any info on this would be greatly appreciated.....like type it is.....what it's worth, etc........thank you
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-10-20 17:01
As I suggested in my <b>personal</b> email to you when you wrote to me - do a <b>search</b> on the BBoard. Rene Duval has come up numberous times in the past.
For current selling price look up comparables at http://www.ebay.org - that's what the pawnshops are doing, too.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-10-20 18:32
Roe - Mark's comments are well put. I believe yours is a "stencilled" cl as in the "Old Clarinet" thread below, on which there is little info. Don
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-10-22 19:30
Some thoughts, questions, and general comments, not addressed to anyone in particular:
Since the Clarinet was invented, somewhere around 1700, I wonder how many manufacturers of Clarinets have come and gone? Hundreds? Thousands? Surely no one knows. Aside from that, how many *brand names* have been used by those manufacturers? And how many names not their own have been labeled ("stenciled") on Clarinets? Tens of thousands? How many of those manufacturers that made poor to terrible clarinets are still around? That one I can answer with certainty: Too many. How many that made excellent to superior Clarinets don't make them now? Another easy answer: Plenty. And how many that made awful instruments are no longer around? Countless. I could probably count on my fingers and toes the total number of (large or small) manufacturers of Clarinets that currently produce anything which would even be called "acceptable" by most readers of this Bulletin Board.
Regarding "old" Clarinets: If one started life as a distinguished instrument, it might be worth more than the price of a currently-produced student Clarinet. If it did not begin as a very good item, it absolutely is not as good as an acceptable current student-grade instrument. Clarinets do not miraculously become far better as they age. They simply degrade.
Roe, here's a potentially useful suggestion for you: The next time you attend an estate sale, do not buy anything you "don't know anything about." I have been involved with Clarinets for over fifty years, off and on, and I cannot answer your questions. The only thing I can assure you is that I have never seen a "Rene Dumont" Clarinet that was in any way positively distinguished. And if it does not work, it is not likely worth as much as you paid for it, unless it would make a nice wall decoration or lamp stand (which is somewhat doubtful) and you paid less than five dollars.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
John
Regards,
John
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