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Double-Wall Clarinets Made By Conn About 1895
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NMM 1331. Clarinet in B-flat by C. G. Conn, Elkhart, ca. 1895. Four sections. Engraved on bell: B / MADE BY / [→] C. G. CONN, [←] / ELKHART, / IND. Serial number 1203. Wonder model. Double-wall, nickel-silver-plated body; nickel-silver keys, rings, and ferrules. Albert System. 13 keys including "patent c-sharp," 2 rings (1 brille), rod/pillar mounts. Total length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 567 mm. Mouthpiece: ebonite or plastic, stamped: TRADE [eagle holding music lyre] MARK / USA. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
Lit.: Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet 37, No. 3 (June 2010): 26-27.
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NMM 6119. Clarinet in E-flat by C. G. Conn, Elkhart, ca. 1895. Four sections. Engraved on bell: CONN / [→] MAKER / ELKHART / IND. [within outline of slanting, pot-shaped shield]. Serial number 1299. Wonder model. Double-wall, silver-plated body and ferrules; gold- plated keys and rings. Albert System. 13 keys including "patent c-sharp," 2 rings (1 brille), rod/pillar mounts. Total length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 405 mm. Mouthpiece: wood, unmarked. Gift of Alan Bates, Hockessin, Delaware, 1998.
Lit.: Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet 37, No. 3 (June 2010): 26-27.
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NMM 3205. Clarinet in E-flat by C. G. Conn, Elkhart, ca. 1895. Four sections. Engraved on bell: MADE / [→] BY [←] / CONN / ELKHART, / [→] IND. [←] [within outline of slanting, pot-shaped shield]. Serial number 1576. Wonder model. Double-wall, gold-plated body; gold-plated keys, rings, and ferrules. Albert System. 13 keys including "patent c-sharp," 2 rings (1 brille), rod/pillar mounts. Total length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 407 mm. Mouthpiece: ebonite, unmarked. W. Wayne Sorensen Collection, 1982.
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Lit.: Margaret Downie Banks, Elkhart's Brass Roots: an Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of C. G. Conn's Birth and the 120th Anniversary of the Conn Company (Vermillion: The Shrine to Music Museum, 1994), p. 31.
Deborah Check Reeves, "Historically Speaking," The Clarinet 37, No. 3 (June 2010): 26-27.
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NMM 14508. Clarinet in B-flat by C. G. Conn, Elkhart, ca. 1895. Four sections. Engraved on bell: C. G. CONN / MAKER / ELKHART, / [→] IND. [←]. Serial number 1888. Wonder model. Double-wall, nickel-silver-plated body; nickel-silver keys, rings, and ferrules. Albert System. 13 keys including "patent c-sharp," 2 rings (1 brille), rod/pillar mounts. Total length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 566 mm. Mouthpiece: ebonite or hard rubber, stamped: CONN. Gift of Dorothy Lynde, Belmont, Massachusetts, 2010.
This clarinet, along with NMM 14507, originally belonged to the donor's grandfather, George C. Schmidt (b. Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, 6 September 1888-1946), one of three sons born to parents who immigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland. As a teenager, Schmidt played clarinet in the Yarmouth Brass Band. The family moved to Boston before Schmidt finished high school in order to give the three boys more career opportunities. Schmidt graduated from high school in Milton, Massachusetts, went to work for Stone and Webster—a Boston-based engineering firm—and married in 1909 or 1910. The donor's mother recalled that as far as she remembered, Schmidt never joined another band, but he played for the family every Saturday evening.
