Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2001/06

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: [kl] New Leblanc Contrabass Clarinets
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:25:34 -0400

In a message dated 01-06-01 04:16:56 EDT, Jay Niepoetter <Niep@-----.comyou
writes:

<< I was just informed tonight, at rehearsal, by a repair tech who also plays
in our community band that LeBlanc has finaly started making the metal
contras again, but now in the USA. The new ones will be black in lieu of the
old chrome plumbing pipe style. Can't wait to see one!>>

Jay,

Check out the Leblanc website which has photos of them. It will be
interesting to find out what effect the black coating (black lacquer? powder
coat?) has on the sound of the "new" contras which are all back except for
the bell and the neck. Has anyone seen and/or played one of them?

Don Gross
La Canada, California
Contrabass Clarinet: Claremont Symphonic Winds, Caltech/Occidental College
Concert Band.

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