Author: Dee
Date: 2000-01-23 04:36
Mark wrote:
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Wow...sounds like your is very similar to mine....Thanks for all of the information you provided.
I do have the barrel and the mouthpieces, as well as the piece that holds the sheets of music.
As for the case, I would guess that it's the original. It may be made from some type of wood, and then has some kind of brown wrapping on the wood, and had a leather handle. On the cover it has a patch with D and N on top of each other, then Noblet in the middle and on the bottom PARIS
The inside of the case has burgandy fur.
None of the pads a leather, it looks like they are made of felt or missing completely.
In your opinion, do you think I should have this appraised for it's value?? If so who would I go to to get the appraisal?.
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Other than the rare specimens like the Haynes professional metal clarinet (very rare & was made by the Haynes of flute fame), metal clarinets have no significant monetary value. Due to the huge number of student clarinets made, some of extremely poor quality and intonation, metal clarinets gained a bad reputation. Plus there are lots of metal clarinets hiding out in attics, etc. that are starting to surface as the people who owned them pass on and their things are sold off. At any one time on eBay, around 10% of the clarinets listed are metal.
I got my metal Noblet on the eBay auction for about $50. Generally the student grade ones go for even less. In the antique/junktique stores, the ones I've seen were under $75.
Most appraisers will be unfamiliar with metal clarinets or will be biased by the "everyone knows that metal clarinets were no good" mindset that was the result of the cheap student ones.
Since Noblet is one of the better brands, my recommendation is to get it fixed up into playing condition just to have a functioning piece of clarinet history. Now and then take it out to play to amaze your acquaintances and astonish the younger players, most of whom will never have seen a metal clarinet.
PLEASE don't let anybody turn this into a lamp. For some reason, there are people who like to do this.
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