1983 to present, The Prefix Number plus 50 will give you the date manufactured. Artley Clarinets 1971 - Present. Serial Number. 1976, 64701 - 75587. Buescher and Bundy Top. 1963 (purchased by Selmer), 381,000. 1965, 408,818. 1970, 520,000. 1840: The Kohlert Company was founded in Graslitz, Czechoslovakia by Vincenz Ferarius Kohlert 2. However, he did not produce any saxophones.

Please find the model you are searching for under the Site Map, below in the left column. Clarinets made in the 20th century are not like violins, where a vintage instrument may be worth millions. Fourteen keyed Albert system and antique clarinets with fewer keys are significantly harder to play, and the volume of tone is not what modern players want. Unless you live in European countries like Switzerland or Germany, you want a modern Boehm system clarinet. (Klezmer clarinetists, polka and folk music artists, and some jazz players (especially in Europe) prefer Albert system clarinets.) And if you want a professional level instrument, you want one of the newer poly-cylindrical bore instruments that date from the late 1960s to the present. (That year is probably a bit early. Perhaps that should be 1980's to the present.) That being said, many of the vintage instruments on these pages are very nice intermediate-level instruments.

Some readers may want to skip to While this page is mainly about French vintage instruments, if your instrument is from another country, look for it under the sub-pages of this page. (displayed below) • Some of the French stencil clarinets would have no problem fitting into college concert bands, being played by fairly advanced musicians. • Wide bore models work well for jazz or for polka or dixieland bands. Marathi Sambal Music Free Download.

• Many vintage clarinets would work well for beginners, as long as they are careful of the key work, which is likely to be more delicate than the better beginning plastic instruments. • The narrow bore instruments often have a delightfully sweet tone and play large intervals with great smoothness. They are great for chamber music. • A few French stencil clarinets are junk, worthy only of being made into lamps.

But even those are better than many Chinese clarinets for sale new for around $50 to $150. Vintage instruments are more often medium and older ones are narrow bore.

Some were made with a large bore in the jazz era. (14.5mm = narrow, 14.75 = medium, 15mm = wide) What is a French ‘stencil’ clarinet?

The heyday of French stencil clarinets probably runs from 1900 to the 1960s. There were also stencil clarinets from other European countries, especially Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Boosey & Hawkes in Great Britain. Almost all of the older French stencil clarinet manufacturers were out of business at the end of the 20th century. (Famous French makers like Buffet, Selmer, and Noblet were still active.) But now continually changing stencil clarinet names are coming in vast numbers from China. So what is a ‘stencil’ clarinet?

Here's my definition: A stencil clarinet is a clarinet that is stamped with any old name that the maker feels might help market the clarinet. A stencil ‘branding’ is a temporarily expedient name, not a registered trademark, and nor is it a model name. A few larger music instrument retailers in the USA from 1930s and 40s would order instruments with their store name as the name on the clarinet, such as the.

In my experience, those are usually good quality clarinets, because there was a relationship that was being maintained between the manufacturer and the store. That would be a special category of French stencil clarinets. Some stencil clarinets are named after famous French clarinetists. I think most of those were not actually marketed by the artists themselves. Many stencil clarinets were given obviously French names, because such names sold better. France was famous for making clarinets.

Thibouville made stencil clarinets (such as the ), but they also sold their own model names (like the ). I think the most prolific maker of differently-named clarinets of the early period was Couesnon. Couesnon also sold their own model names (such as the ).

I don't consider such model names to be stencils. The model names would more likely be registered trademark names. Model names that include the manufacturer's name will often be the top of the line or flagship line of that company. Most stencil clarinet names were only marketed for a year or two, and often were sold only in one particular market (USA, or Europe), whereas model names are widely marketed year after year. The top three French clarinet makers— Buffet, Selmer, and Noblet, and now we can add Japan's Yamaha, for the most part have only made different models, not stencil clarinets.

So, for example, Evette-Schaeffer is a model name produced by Buffet. It is not a stencil. Columbia University Art History Graduate Program here.

Buffet briefly branded a few of their Buffet top of the line R13 clarinets with the names of large music houses in the USA. An example of this is the. The name of the music house was only marked on the bell. That is a true Buffet clarinet, not a stencil. For a while Noblet had contracts with other well-known instrument makers to make specially branded versions of their plastic Vito clarinets. An example is the (a brand better known for brass instruments).

Another example by a different maker is the clarinet (a brand better known for flutes). Those clarinets are not properly called stencil clarinets because they bear the names of major music instrument manufacturers. Usually the manufacturers involved in such subcontracting (like Noblet) were not the ones we associate with making stencil instruments. Stencil clarinets are not an attempt to fool customers. Nowadays one can find fake Buffet plastic clarinets that have been made in China. Those are counterfeits, not stencil clarinets. Similarly, there have been Selmar clarinets— obviously trying to fool people with the similarity to the Selmer name.

There is a historical example that deserves a note here: The Auguste Buffet clarinet was NOT made by the famous Buffet company. It is said that Auguste may have been a disaffected Buffet brother. Whatever the truth is, I suspect that clarinets with Auguste's name lasted longer than his lifetime, because the Buffet name fooled some people and sold well. Many Chinese stencil clarinets come with obviously French names, just as Chinese pianos often are given German names.

These may not be counterfeits, but they still seem like a cheesy attempt to hide the true country of manufacture.