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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1quantities than the demand warrants, the company made these instruments for a time about 1930 in Germany.
3Figures are not available for the total number made to date of each kind of woodwind now manufactured. The largest volume is in clarinets of which 10,000 were made in 1932 as compared with about 600 flutes and 200 piccolos.
5Mr. Bettoney, knowing a player's difficulties with the cracking of ebony wood, has created "Bettonite" guaranteed against that for ten years.
7Since September 1925 when he brought out a metal clarinet, the "Silva-Bet," patented March 21, 1929, the company has made almost entirely metal clarinets. Since no concern in the world was making metal clarinets when these silver clarinets were introduced, this company may properly be considered the originator of the "first Successful Metal Clarinet." They make different grades of metal clarinets. The popular priced ones are called "Boston Wonder" and "P. X. Laube." Bettoney clarinets have been sold in all parts of the United States and many have been exported to Europe in recent years.
9A special hard white metal is used for the body of these. Among the special features are the following:
11It has a single metal tubular body with raised tone holes, F# & F vent holes closed by fingers, and a G vent hole, closed by a cap carried on a lever which is pivoted on bearings. This has been the leader in popularizing the metal clarinet, which is made more accurately and played more easily than the wood clarinet.
13"Silva-Bet" clarinets are used by prominent bands such as Herbert Clarke's Band of Long Beach, California, bands in the Government Service,10 and many others. In fact present United States Government specifications for clarinet are based on the "Silva-Bet" clarinet.
1510 The Music Trades, December 17, 1927 p. 131, "The Silver Clarinet is Adopted by the U. S. Army Band."
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