Klarinet Archive - Posting 001244.txt from 2000/06

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Noblet (was: C clarinet (was:clefs & transposition, was oboefingerings))
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:03:20 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Noblet (was: C clarinet (was:clefs & transposition, was
oboefingerings))

> At 05:16 PM 6/27/2000 -0400, Dee Hays wrote:
> >> At 08:59 AM 6/27/2000 +0100, Roger Shilcock wrote:
> >> >
> >> >According to the UK Leblanc distributors, the "Noblet" brand is on the
> >way
> >> >out, with the models.
> >> >
> >> That would be a shame! Leon Leblanc, who took over Noblet, the family
> >> business, long before even starting the Leblanc company, dies recently,
> >and
> >> already they want to destroy the brand he swore to protect. Sad.
> >
> >Check the Leblanc site at www.gleblanc.com
> >
> >It was Leon's father, Georges Leblanc, who took over from the Noblet
family.
> >
> True, but did not Leon take over from him, which is why I said "family
> business?" Georges and Leon also started the G.Leblanc company together
in
> France. Leon and Vito Pascucci then formed the current company in about
> 1946 after they became friends during WW II when Vito was with the Glenn
> Miller band in Europe as a repair tech.

Also true in that sense but remember we engineers tend to go for the more
precise answers. Afterall at the time that the Noblet family, due to lack
of heirs, passed the firm to Georges Leblanc, Leon was still a fairly young
child.

Dee Hays

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