Klarinet Archive - Posting 000926.txt from 2000/03

From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet: A. Gardelli Bari
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:55:17 -0500

At 06:03 PM -0500 3/27/00, Mark Charette wrote:
>From: "Topper" <leo_g@-----.com>
>> the upper joint is marked
>>
>> *
>> BUFFET
>> A PARIS
>> A.GARDELLI
>> BARI
>
>A little bit of info:
>
>Gardelli, A. WWI fl Bari, ?early 20c.
>A musette, saxophone reported.
>Mark: A. GARDELLI / BARI
>
>from "The New Langwill Index".
>
>Bari is a city in southern Italy. Perhaps they imported Buffets for resale
>and stamped their own name on it, a common occurrence at that time.
>
>Mark Charette@-----.org
>Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org

Thank you mark. I am stll needing to know what model(s) it could be, based
on that and any information. No serial number and no modele number. The
colour of the wood is very natural and the grain flows around the tone
holes well. Any pourositi inside the toneholes is non-existent. There is no
stright delineated grain going from one tonehole to another. The grain is
very tight and wavey and no direct lines going from the outside surface to
anywhere near the inner (bore) surface. There are no makers marks on the
body or under the keys.

The availabilty of wood at that time must have allowed for better grades of
symphonic instruments. If this is Italian I would suspect that they were
very demeanding in quality at that time even tough there were a great many
bad clarinetists in the countryside playing the tarentella. ;-)

Only the tell-tale handwork and hand cuts for retainers in the body. All
the handfile marks one would expect in the key forgery.

The wood is very nice almost like cocouswood.

Short of measuring it (bore etc, (and if I had to) how would I tell what
model it is?

Cheers, Leo
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