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RE: Penzel-Mueller clarinet

Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-01-31 21:50

From what I've read and my limited personal experience with P-M's, I'd say that they were one of the two American manufacturers of consistently high-quality clarinets (the other being Prueffer), although it's debatable whether either company ever achieved the level of the better French manufacturers (B, L, S) or those pesky Japanese folks (Y). P-M was an old company, started as G. Penzel back in the late 1800's I think, then merged with Mueller (maybe around the 1920's??) to become P-M, and as far as I know they ceased to exist somewhere around the WW2 timeframe. I'm writing this off-the-cuff without research (laziness, no doubt) so take all of this with a large lump of salt.

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