Klarinet Archive - Posting 000931.txt from 2000/03

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet: A. Gardelli Bari
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:55:22 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Topper" <leo_g@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet: A. Gardelli Bari

> 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?
>

This is probably too old to tell no matter what you do. Plus model names and
numbers weren't that commonly used back then. Besides that it was also
uncommon for companies to keep records of this type. Basically you have a
nice old Buffet of indeterminate age. If it plays well, just relax and
enjoy it.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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