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Author: Deborah
Date: 2002-11-23 02:39
I don't have it yet, but I'll be getting a clarinet. I'd like to find out something about it, but can't find anything on the serial number or on the maker of the clarinet.
It's a metal one piece clarinet. It has Velvetone Made in America stamped on it. I was also told that the serial number on it is 1522A
I don't think it's worth much, but it looks old in the picture. I thought it would be interesting to find out some about it like the age and who made it and stuff and restore it as I have the money.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Deborah
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-11-23 07:01
Hi, Deborah -
It's always nice to read about people's musical experiences and especially experiences with instruments. Some of the older horns don't look like they'd be worth much money, and most of them aren't. However, some of them can be surprisingly good players in spite of that. How the instrument plays is far more important than its history. Please keep us up to date with your progress.
For information on clarinets and music overall this board, no doubt, is the best source you'll find anywhere in the world.
There is another post right near this one about metal clarinets that may be of interest to you. Check it out
Thank you for your post.
- ron b -
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Author: Deborah
Date: 2002-11-23 11:49
You're right! How it sounds is most important!:-) To be totally honest I didn't buy it for what it's worth, because I don't think it's worth what I even paid for it, but it was in my price range. I haven't played a clarinet in 15 years and didn't want to spend a fortune to find out I can't!
Seeing it's old I just thought it would be interesting to see how old it is. Especailly considering my children have seen pictures of it and they're all interested in history. So trying to find out anything about it is more for the fun family time we're having talking about it and trying to find out well where do we look for this information and stuff. I really have no clue as to where to look for information!!
Since my children have seen the pictures it's gone from "Oh brother! Mom is getting a clarinet" to "Oh! Wow! Mom is getting a clarinet and it looks like it's old! A part of history! Mom what can you tell us about this?" Well that is why I started trying to search it out some. It's nice having the whole family interested and talking about the same thing. With 4 children that is very hard to do sometimes!:-)
Have a Wonderful day!
Deborah
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-11-23 14:31
This is purely a guess but it may be pre-1950. The heyday of the metal clarinets seems to have been in the 1930s or 1940s. Although Noblet made a metal clarinet as late as the early 1970s, most makers had discontinued doing so by the 1950s or earlier.
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Author: Deborah
Date: 2002-11-23 15:40
Thank you so much for the information!:-) I do know this isn't a Noblet. It has Velvetone stamped on it for the manufacturer.
You know until Thursday I never even realised one piece clarinets of any type had ever been made....let alone metal....so it's interesting.
Have a Wonderful day!
Deborah
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-11-23 16:13
Welcome back to the wonderful world of clarinets, Deborah! You have a wonderful day as well now, ya hear?
(Yeah, you can tell I'm from Tennessee.)
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-11-24 04:54
Well, Deborah, you played the clarinet fifteen years ago. That's great news and I'm always happy to hear someone say something like that because what it means to me, from personal experience, is that you play the clarinet -- Period. I'm firmly convinced of that (again, from personal experience). There is no such thing as a "has been" or a "maybe I can't". Everyone I know has at one time or another taken some time off. Some return - some are still taking time outs but no one ever forgets. It may come back rather quickly for some of us or it may take a little longer for most of us; but it's always there, indelibly impressed in our memory banks. What you've once learned will never ever go away for good. If you stick around here for a while, or if you've been here a long time, you'll know that yours is a relatively short time out.
Quite naturally, we are very interested in your progress. So please keep us posted, as often as you like. If it weren't for some very nice, patient, and informative people who post here I might have given up the idea that you can come back. And, best of all, I know you don't have to spend a fortune to find out that you CAN
A large percentage of us have been at some time, and some of us are right now, exactly where you are today in that respect.
In other words, I'd like to also add a
"Welcome Back Deborah"
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Author: Deborah
Date: 2002-11-25 03:07
Thanks for the incouragement for getting started back up:-) I think it will come back. It's taken time, but I've picked the piano back up and the organ (not that I did much with that)....I've even started playing the accordian some (and I've never had any lessons on that). I don't play any one instrument very well, (didn't start playing anything till I was 15ish and no musical background before that) but I enjoy practicing. It's quite relaxing and so destressful! Not just for me, but for others around me as well (so I guess my playing isn't totally bad). I never would have stopped playing the clarinet, but shortly after my husband and I got married we needed money and my husband sold it.
I think I've miss the clarinet the most because I actually had about a year to a year and a half of lessons on the clarinet. So I know it some better then the other instruments.
Hope you all have a Wonderful day!
Deborah
Oh and yes....I could tell someone lived in the south...I thought Georgia till I seen Tennesee.
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