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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2008/04
From: leel@-----.net
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Cabart English horn
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:56:28 -0400
Hi Barbara,
"Guess" is all I can offer but in my dark and distant past I had two
Cabart instruments, an oboe from 1959 and an English horn from 1964. The
older instruments followed a serial number of two letters followed by
two numbers. My oboe was UU something I think. But by the time I got the
English horn in 1964, they had gone to a numbering system which I
remember as resembling what you describe. Mine was 3Csomething with
maybe 3 numbers after it. Now if the "3" stood for 1963, (when the horn
was probably made; we got it in early '64) your instrument may have
been from 1968. We know it had to have been before 1974 when Lorée took
them over over and probably after 1960 or whenever they ran out of the
ZZ-number sequence. So you can probably say 1960s for sure, and possibly
1968. All I know for sure was the two quite different numbering systems
I saw.
How is the instrument? The one I got was the worst horn I ever tried to
play. I got rid of it as soon as I could and got a B-series Lorée in the
summer of 1965. Both instruments were imported by Dandois in Fort Worth.
I should have gotten a clue when I noticed there was already a pin in
the bell when it arrived! I think it was $400 at the time--the Lorée was
only $600 as I remember, but it *was* 1965 and it was an exquisite horn.
I was both shocked and disappointed with the Cabart Eh because the oboe
from '59 was a pretty good one, especially considering how many
instruments they made for schools in that era. .
Best,
Lee
>
> Subject:
> Cabart EH
> From:
> mzeztee <mzeztee@-----.edu>
> Date:
> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:34:17 -0400
> To:
> doublereed@-----.org
>
> To:
> doublereed@-----.org
>
>
> Hey List,
>
> I'm filling in teaching at a NC college which owns a Cabart English
> horn. We all were wondering how OLD this instrument is. The serial
> number is 8H36. It was in "place" when all of the current wind
> faculty were hired so no one knows when it was acquired. According to
> information I got when "googling" Cabart, there is no chronological
> list out there for Cabart.
>
> Any ideas???
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Barbara
>
>
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