![]() ![]() When the laminated billets were turned on the lathes to produce clarinet bodies, a very beautiful false grain pattern was revealed. The main idea was to create a clarinet which would not crack. “I believe, Conn began manufacturing clarinets out of laminated wood (essentially thick plywood, similar to what is used to manufacture wooden aircraft propellers) to be sold under their cheaper Pan-American brand. They came in plastic or Cocobolo plywood.īill Hausmann says this about the instrument in the Klarinet Archive: Unsubstantiated sources say the same wood was used in the manufacture of WWII B24 Liberator Bomber Propellers’, hence the nick name “Propeller wood clarinet”. This instrument was an ingenious solution by Conn to the scarcity of Grenadilla wood during the Second World War. This particular instrument was dirt cheap and at this point unplayable without an overhaul. It is more commonly known as a propeller wood clarinet. This striking Pan American “Violin Finish” clarinet (made by Conn) was mistakenly described on eBay as made from pear wood. ![]()
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