My unusal clarinet for sale!

[C_Claudemonster]

Hi All, offered for sale is my unusaul De Peyer 'Bel Canto' clarinet. It is stamped as USA made, well built (quite weighty) and has a serial no. Nobody knows much about these but I have given it a thorough clean and wiped the silver plated keys with a silver cloth and they shine a bit more now! It has a pretty decent, mellow sound and is quite comfortable under the fingers. Based on this I would be happy to accept 85 GBP which includes postage to the UK and a new vandoren reed - I've got strengths 1.5, 2, 2.5 or 3 so either one of those I can include. If you're picking up clarinet to learn then I have x4 books that aren't required and can go with it.
Please ask me for more pics and of course I will donate 5% of the sale to the fund. Thanks for looking

 

[Nick Wyver]

Is it wooden?

 

[C_Claudemonster]

Hi Nick, no it's composite/ebonite (I hate saying plastic because there is a difference!)

 

[milandro]

actually ebonite is vulcanised hard rubber, the same stuff most mouthpieces are made of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite

 

[C_Claudemonster]

lol, cheers. That put me right - I do get a tad confused with the different materials they have used in the past to make a clarinet body. It's still for sale if anyone out there is interested. As it's an unknown make I'm inclined to reduce my asking price a bit. I can manage around 75 pounds and post can be inclusive in this.
I do have 2 other clarinets for sale but then again, they aren't saxes and I feel like I'm clogging pages up on here advertising some of my music cupboard! So I make my apologies!

 

[milandro]

well, since every sale also brings some money to Pete's charity ......there is no reason to feel bad about " taking space" here, after all that's why the space is here! So I encourage you to advertise your clarinets among the saxophones , saxophone players are known, at times, to be playing other things.........even black sticks