Was detecting a old farm house found this

Perhaps sell the clarinet and give the wife the money...might make her rethink your investment!

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Great find!! I need to find a old farm house! I need to see what my new f44 metal detector can do! I took it out a couple of times to learn it.

 

That's a cool find! I have 2 detectors and haven't used them in a couple years.

 

For what it's worth, I bought a metal detector from Radio Shack when I was a kid with tip money from my paper routes. Around $50. I used that detector for a couple of years and it surely paid for itself with the finds I made (silver coins, silver spoons, gold rings and jewelry). A few years back, I was hanging out with my kids and their cousins when they became bored. I knew there was a Radio Shack just 5 minutes away, so I drove there and picked up another detector for around $60. They hunted the yard for a bit but they didn't want to dig the spots where the discriminator said 'foil' or 'iron'. I told them to dig anyway as I recalled back in the day, any sound was worthy of a dig (even if it was just to remove garbage). I took the detector to demonstrate and within a couple minutes, I got the 'foil' message. So I dug. Net for my effort: 1876 IHC in fine condition (second inexpensive metal detector paid for).

 

Clarnet.

 

It cleaned up great too I thought was brass

 

Cavalier elkhareing USA
Number 011219 close to bell

 

Thanks for the pic! That’s a Cavalier, circa late 1940s.

It was marketed as a standard, student level instrument. Elkhart, Indiana was a huge factory town that produced clarinets for like a hundred years - the main American production city.

You see these on eBay for around $50. Restored you might clear $130-$150, with a well done professional restoration.

Probably not worth the cost to restore.

Many people make these into lamps - get a bulb socket and stick it on top, string a wire through, and you’ve got yourself a neat lamp and conversation piece

 

Awesome thank you for the information man it took hrs to clean that thing .I will add it to my cool finds.

 

It's not always about the money - more valuable is the journey, in my opinion

 

Yes I agree 100%