At 9:47 PM -0400 7/2/06, Giz Bowe wrote:
Thought someone here might have a clue: A friend has a Hager clarinet, and is curious about its value and resale possibilities. I can't find any references on the web to this brand. He's been told that it has "oboe style keys," whatever that means, and seems to be old - maybe turn of the century old. Does anybody have a resource where he could learn more about this clarinet, or an appraiser in the Richmond/Washington DC area?
Looks like Böhm system keywork, rather than Albert (some of which I have), but an incomplete and therefore cheap version of Böhm, lacking the additional alternate little-finger keys used as options in complex passages. That's probably what's meant by "oboe style." And it isn't weird enough to be one of the kind still used by the Vienna Phil.
Antique only by legal definition, since it may be over 100 years old all right, but actually simply "old" and of little value either as a functional instrument or a museum instrument. Might be able to sell it to a collector who lacks an example of just this type. And of course there's no guarantee that it was built to sound at 440; in fact there's an awfully good chance that it wasn't.
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