![]() ![]() I can find precious little on Bundy serial numbers (which surprises me, as they are so prolific and ubiquitus) but based upon what I know about Bundys, and upon the design of the case, the fact that this is a grenadilla model, and the fact that her mother played it in the late 1950s (and it was used at that time) and FINALLY, that Bundys began being made from resonite in 1948, I will take a guess that this one was manufactured after 1945 and before they phased out wood production, altogether. ![]() Close inspection revealed a beautiful, crack free body, but a couple of bent keys, a few frozen keys and a good many stripped out key post screws. ![]() Inside the presumably original H&A Selmer case was her mother's Geo. (Back story: This is a clarinet she mentioned to me a couple of years ago when I mentioned to her that I repaired clarinets in casual conversation, and she kept promising she'd get it from her parents house when she next visited, but she forgot and forgot, and I forgot about it, summarily) I inquired, "A clarinet, eh? May I?" She told me to have at it. I was over at a friend's house this evening, and I looked on the kitchen table, and there was an unmistakable box sitting there.
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