Iowa Band Museum: Woodwind Instrument Collection

A (L.P.) Clarinet, "Excelsior"
Manufactured in Austria / J.W. Pepper & Son, Philadelphia, PA
Donated April 3, 1998 by Ray & Verjean Busching.
Belonged to Ray's uncle, W.F. Busching
Ebony, Albert system
Upper joint: 8 keys. Lower joint: 2 rings (2nd & 3rd fingers), 5 keys

Conn Bb "Cavalier" metal clarinet
Serial #08601. Silver plate, Boehm system

Bb Buffet clarinet
Crampon & Cie. A Paris
Serial #15843
Ebony, Boehm system, 4 pieces including mouthpiece

Bb Selmer clarinet, Paris
Markings: DO and depose above, France below on
upper joint. DO on barrel on lower joint, DO barrel,
Selmer, Elkhart, IN on bell
Donated July 15, 1987. Played by Bill Lynch,
a long-time member of the CFMB.
Ebony, Boehm system, 5 pieces including mouthpiece

C Clarinet manufactured by V. Kohlert & Sons,
Graslitz, Czechoslovakia, Serial #21346
Donated April 3, 1998 by Ray and Verjean Busching.
Belonged to Ray's uncle, W.F. Busching
Ebony, Albert system
Upper joint: 2 rings (1st and 2nd fingers), 8 keys.
Lower joint: 2 rings (2nd and 3rd fingers), 5 keys.

Eb alto clarinet manufactured by V. Kohlert & Sons,
Graslitz, Czechoslovakia, Serial #790, ebony, 4 pieces, without mouthpiece

Oboe manufactured by F. Loree, Paris
Serial #HH48 on upper and lower joints and bell
Ebony.

This oboe was donated by Allison Offerman, a 2011 graduate of UNI.
The original owner of this 1933 Lorče oboe was Gordon Harstad, an
oboist and metallurgist from Marion, Iowa. Mr. Harstad actively
played with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s and 1960s.
Mr. Harstad was an acquaintance of Andrč Andraud, former principal
oboist of the Cincinnati Symphony and brother of English hornist and
Vade Mecum for the Oboist author Albert Andraud. Mr. Harstad asked
Andrč to select an oboe for him while he was visited the Lorče factory
in Paris. Mr. Andraud picked Loree oboe AG 22. Gordon played this oboe
well into the 1970s when he had a heart attack; after that the oboe was
left in a box until his widow presented it to Ms. Offerman in 2008. Harstad’s
widow (Bernice) gave the oboe, her husband’s reed making supplies, and old
music to Allison after reading an inspiring article about her in the Cedar
Rapids Gazette newspaper. Since then Allison has had it appraised at $1500 by
a Cedar Falls instrument repair technician and has now donated it to the
Iowa Band Museum for many to enjoy.

Buffet Bassoon (L.P.), made in Paris
Serial #R466
No bocal, lots of detached key mechanism

Buffet Bassoon
Serial #549R [or P?]
No bocal

Karl Wunderlich Bassoon
Serial #484, Czechoslovakia

Conn Bb Bass Saxophone
Serial #B 56522 L
Silverplate, soldered toneholes

Conn Eb (L.P.) Sarrusaphone
Serial #1119954 Eb V259, patd. December, 1914
Acquired ca. 1923
Adjustable pivot screws, double reed or single reed
mouthpiece (specially made by Conn)