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RE: are these clarinets worth anything?

Author: Jean
Date: 2003-01-27 19:59

Actually there are very few military bands in the US these days. Cutbacks in the military in the 1970's led to bands being (pardon the pun) disbanded. It used to be every base had a band. That is not the case anymore. My dad played in the Army in the 1950's and played on a wooden clarinet. The clarinet he played on belonged to the military even though he had one of his own. I couldn't say when the metal clarinet fell out of favor, but I have seen pictures of my dad in the early 1940's holding his first clarinet (a metal one). And I have the entry in my grandpa's journal that it cost 16 dollars.

Jean

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