Klarinet Archive - Posting 000161.txt from 1999/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Evette Clarinets
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:48:16 -0500

From: Jdclar@-----.com>

>The controversy is in reality local but I have never checked with the
list for
>their opinion. Evette was a brand not built by Buffet but by a company
that
>was licensed to use the Buffet name. (This is as I understand it, real
facts
>may be different.)

Paul Evette and Ernest Scheaffer _bought_ Buffet in 1885; 1918 Maurice
Evette succeeded Paul.

Evette & Schaeffer clarinets were manufactured at the Buffet factory
from 1885-1929; in 1929 a new firm was founded called Buffet-Crampon,
even though this name had never been dropped. The Buffet-Crampon name
had been created by Jean Louis Buffet (d. 1865) (after marrying Mlle.
Zoe Crampon to distinguish it from his rival & uncle, Auguste Buffet
jeune.

I have the Buffet family chart & history at:
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?id=576

Cheers,
----
Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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